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Holiday Parties in Washington, DC: How to Choose a Venue for 25 to 165 Guests

In February 1906, Alice Roosevelt married Congressman Nicholas Longworth in the East Room of the White House, in front of roughly a thousand guests. When it came time to cut the cake, she borrowed a sword from a military aide and did the job herself. She understood something every good host eventually learns. The room

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The Art of The Beacon: A Guide to the Collection Inside Our Scott Circle Hotel

Alice Roosevelt never threw anything away. Her house on Massachusetts Avenue filled up over sixty years with souvenirs from her travels, photographs, trophies from her father’s expeditions, and stacks of books. Visitors left with the sense that every object had a story, and that she’d be happy to tell it if you stayed for another

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Where to Stay for the Marine Corps Marathon 2026: A Scott Circle Race-Weekend Guide

Alice Roosevelt raced cars through the streets of Washington and was famous for not getting out of bed before two in the afternoon. She would have found the Marine Corps Marathon completely baffling and turned up to watch anyway, ideally with something in a flask. Twenty-six point two miles on foot, voluntarily, at dawn. Extraordinary.

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48 Hours in Washington, DC: A Fall Weekend Itinerary from Scott Circle

Alice Roosevelt’s first rule for Washington was straightforward: don’t rush. This is a city that prefers a well-cut coat, a sharp opinion, and a traveler who knows when to linger. Forty-eight hours will test that philosophy. It’s also, handled properly, exactly enough. Washington changes register in fall. The summer heat finally concedes, the streets turn

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Bringing Your Dog to Washington, DC: A Pet-Friendly Guide to Scott Circle & Dupont Circle

Alice Roosevelt traveled with a Pekingese called Manchu, brought home from Asia and installed at the center of Washington society with rather less paperwork than a dog requires today. She also, on at least one documented occasion, arrived at a formal party with a garter snake named Emily Spinach in her purse. We’re pleased to

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Three flags—European Union, Ukraine, and Poland—hang on poles outside an ornate, historic building with decorative stonework under a clear blue sky.

Dupont Circle & Embassy Row: A Complete Guide to Washington’s Most Walkable Neighborhood

Washington usually introduces itself through its monuments. The Capitol dome, the Lincoln Memorial, the obelisk, the long museum row along the Mall. All of it magnificent, all of it entirely aware of being magnificent. Then there’s the other Washington, a few blocks northwest, where the city stops declaring and starts gossiping. Around Dupont Circle, Scott

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Where to Stay Near the National Geographic Museum of Exploration

Alice Roosevelt had a phrase for it. Her father called her appetite for the world running riot. She preferred eating up the world — and she spent the better part of six decades proving she meant it, sailing to Cuba, crossing Asia as an emissary of American culture, and filling a Massachusetts Avenue house with

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