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• ↓ 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
• ↓ Hotel Lombardy: The 1929 Foggy Bottom Apartment That Became DC’s Old-World Boutique
• ↓ Meridian Mansions: Senators, a Czech Flag, and a Century at 2400 16th Street
• ↓ The Bishop Family Murders: A Bethesda Home, a Foggy Bottom Memo, and a 48-Year Manhunt
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"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."

"On December 28, 1938, in a small alley off 6th Street NW, a 31-year-old woman named Ruth McDonald accepted a drink from a young chemistry student and was dead within the hour."

"For 53 years, 2440 18th Street NW was Millie and Al’s. Al Shapiro bought Bobbie’s Restaurant in 1963, kept the name of his bartender girlfriend, and gave Adams Morgan Jell-o shots, a dancing skeleton, and its longest-running dive bar."

"Charles Curtis had Bassett Furniture build a 19.5-foot mahogany chair outside his Anacostia showroom in 1959. A year later, model Lynn Arnold moved into a glass house on top of it for 42 days. The chair is still there."

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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

Hotel Lombardy: The 1929 Foggy Bottom Apartment That Became DC’s Old-World Boutique

Meridian Mansions: Senators, a Czech Flag, and a Century at 2400 16th Street

The Bishop Family Murders: A Bethesda Home, a Foggy Bottom Memo, and a 48-Year Manhunt