Home | Newsletter | Advertise
loading...

This Weekend: Dozens of (Free) Walking Tours of DC's Neighborhoods

  • September 15th 2009

by Will Smith

✉️ Want to forward this article? Click here.

This Weekend: Dozens of (Free) Walking Tours of DC's Neighborhoods: Figure 1

This weekend is the semi-annual WalkingDown DC event, when scores of walking tours are held throughout the District to explore neighborhoods both mainstream and off the beaten path. It is interesting, free, and highly recommended, especially for those of you considering purchasing a home in one of the featured neighborhoods.

Most tours run one to three hours, and they are held all day Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th. There are over 100 tours in total over the two days.

The various topics and tours are myriad, but here are just a few that pique our interest:

  • Southwest Washington and Waterfront Development – Saturday, 4-5:30pm
  • Before Harlem, There Was U Street – Saturday, noon-2pm and Sunday, 10:30am-12:30pm
  • NoMa’s Renaissance: To NPR – Saturday, 10-11am
  • At Home on Capitol Hill – Saturday, 1:30-3:30pm and Sunday, 11:30am-1:30pm
  • Hillcrest & “East Washington Heights” – Saturday, 2-4pm
  • Explore Florida Market/Capital City Market – Saturday, 11am-1pm
  • Old Takoma Park – Saturday, 10am-noon
  • Historic Anacostia – Saturday, 10am-noon
  • H Street Alley Exploration – Saturday, 10am-1pm

When we took that last tour, the H Street alley exploration, last year, the carriage house property we featured a couple weeks ago as our inaugural Unique Spaces column was actually part of the tour. (We can’t promise it will be this year, though.)

For descriptions and details of each tour, including where to meet, check out the website — here is a long list of all the Saturday tours, and here it is for Sunday.

For a convenient schedule of all the tours at a glance, print out this PDF version of the brochure.

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/this_weekend_dozens_of_free_walking_tours_of_dcs_neighborhoods/1314.

DC Real Estate Guides

Short guides to navigating the DC-area real estate market

We've collected all our helpful guides for buying, selling and renting in and around Washington, DC in one place. Start browsing below!

First-Timer Primers

Intro guides for first-time home buyers

Red Flags Revealed During a Home Inspection Top 5 Tax Breaks For Homeowners Tax Relief for DC Homeowners
Condo Fee Tutorial What is a Rent Back? 10 Ways To Tell If a Home Renovation is Well Done
Obtaining a Basic Business License For Your Rental What is an Adjustable Rate Mortgage? The Splitting the Rent Formula
How Much Cash Do You Need to Buy a House? Is This Condo Building Financially Healthy? Interest Rates and Mortgage Points
The Scoop on Mortgage Insurance

Unique Spaces

Awesome and unusual real estate from across the DC Metro

The Most Intriguing Loft in DC The R Street Firehouse DC’s One-Room House
Dupont Circle’s Old Frat House To Become Alley Home Best Transition From a Garage To a Home The Roundhouse
Tilden Gardens Restaurant-Turned-Home Hits Market Next Week Logan Circle’s Most Intriguing Garage Frank Lloyd Wright Goes Green in Kensington
Sears Bungalow Gets a Modern Makeover Old Town General Store Becomes Three-Level Home Making the Most of a Skinny House
A Studio 27 Renovation on Capitol Hill Once a Carriage House, Now a Home The Bank that Became a Home
From Pie to Hooch to Heroin to Home The Live-Aboards of Gangplank Marina A Treehouse with Rock Creek Park As A Backyard
Modern Tranquility in Sperryville Saddle Up For Stable Living Throwing a Curve at 550 Square Feet
A Modern Hilltop Retreat Tilden Street Restaurant Becomes Spacious Home Focus on Design: A Vastu Unit at 22 West
The DC Area’s First Net Zero Home A Yankee Goes Green DC’s First Carbon Neutral Home
Eco-Friendly Alley House Off H Street The Gym, The Stables and The Firehouse