Tudor Nights: Sanitary Solutions – Hygiene in the Peter Household

August 26, 2021

Discover how ideas about personal hygiene have evolved through records and artifacts left behind by the Peter family during their 200-year ownership of Tudor Place. Join Tudor Place’s new curator, […]

Homeschool History Days: Winter Warmth

August 5, 2021

Introduce students to our nation’s past! Through hands-on programming at Dumbarton House, homeschool students ages 5-12 are invited to “travel back in time” 220 years and explore the early history […]

Homeschool History Days: Bygone Games


Introduce students to our nation’s past! Through hands-on programming at Dumbarton House, homeschool students ages 5-12 are invited to “travel back in time” 220 years and explore the early history […]

Weekend Round Up June 6, 2019

June 6, 2019

The 2019 Capital Pride Parade steps off from 21st and P Streets at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. Also this Saturday: Pride on the Pier at the Wharf and CultureFest DMV at National Harbor.

Washington Dollar Days: Tour Tudor Place for a Buck

February 7, 2019

Practice frugality our founding father would approve of: Pay just $1 per person for any regular tour in February, the month of George Washington’s birth. We are DC’s only historic […]

Chocolate Festival

February 3, 2019

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian holds its annual Chocolate Festival in February. From the blossoms of the cacao tree which grows in Mesoamerica, the Maya culture developed […]

Free Lecture

January 22, 2019

Come sharpen your DC history knowledge with this FREE lecture presented by our Curator, Grant Quertermous. Hear stories surrounding Peter family furniture, silver and household items made by local Georgetown […]

Candlelight Tours

November 20, 2018

Celebrate the season and the Centennial of the end of World War I with a festive evening at Tudor Place. Tour the mansion by “candlelight,” viewing decorations inspired by 1918 […]

Director’s Conversation with Steve Inskeep

November 6, 2018

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition, is also the author of “Jacksonland,” a history of President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the […]

Honor Song for Returning Native American Women Warriors


In advance of Veterans Day, composer, singer and drummer Ralph Zotigh (Kiowa) will sing an honor song he composed for Native American women veterans. He will be joined by his […]