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• ↓ The Reform School for Girls That Stood Where Sibley Hospital Is Now
• ↓ Nathans Georgetown: 40 Years at 3150 M Street, and What’s There Now
• ↓ The Whiskey Still Where Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Lived, and Ran the White House
• ↓ Robert Askins, 1938 DC Cyanide Killer: A Four-Decade Arc
• ↓ Millie and Al’s: 53 Years at 2440 18th Street NW
• ↓ The Big Chair in Anacostia: Lynn Arnold’s 42 Days in a Glass House
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"Long before Stetson’s Famous Bar & Grill filled 1610 U Street NW with punk shows and cheap beer, the same storefront was a Prohibition speakeasy. Federal agents raided it five times between 1921 and 1924. Then they raided it again…"

"For sixty years a reform school for girls stood on the Palisades hill where Sibley Hospital is today. The troubled history of the National Training School for Girls, 1893 to 1953."

"A bookie named Nathan Detroit opened it in 1969, Howard Joynt ran it for 28 years, Carol Joynt closed it on July 12, 2009. Now a Capital One Cafe occupies the southeast corner of Wisconsin and M."

"Halfway down the Rock Creek slope at 2400 Tilden Street NW stands Isaac Peirce’s 1811 whiskey still. In 1954 Sherman Adams moved in and ran the Eisenhower White House from a converted distillery three miles from Lafayette Square."

Key Topics & Focus Areas for ghostsofdc.org:

The Reform School for Girls That Stood Where Sibley Hospital Is Now

Nathans Georgetown: 40 Years at 3150 M Street, and What’s There Now

The Whiskey Still Where Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Lived, and Ran the White House

Robert Askins, 1938 DC Cyanide Killer: A Four-Decade Arc

Millie and Al’s: 53 Years at 2440 18th Street NW

The Big Chair in Anacostia: Lynn Arnold’s 42 Days in a Glass House