Ford's Theater
In 1861 theatre manager John T. Ford leased out the abandoned First Baptist Church on Tenth Street to create Ford's Theatre.
The District of Columbia, particularly the U.S. Capitol and other historic buildings, is rumored to be haunted due to a history of tragedy, including assassinations, untimely deaths, and other associated events, leading to numerous accounts of ghostly activity.
In 1861 theatre manager John T. Ford leased out the abandoned First Baptist Church on Tenth Street to create Ford's Theatre.
The oldest of the three United States Library of Congress buildings, the Thomas Jefferson Building was built between 1890 and 1897.
The Peterson House is located across the street from Ford's Theater and is the house in which President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot in the Ford's Theater.
The presidential mansion was designed by James Hoban and personally approved by George Washington. The mansion would be situated on the angled Pennsylvania Avenue at the 1600 block, down the street from the Capitol building.
An example of 19th-century neoclassical architecture, the Capitol evokes the ideals that guided the Founding Fathers as they developed the new republic.