If the District sleeps alone at night, as the Postal Service song suggests, the city certainly awakens by day. It becomes alive with the buzz of politics and history, lobbyists and tourists. Living in ...

The nine row houses on 316-320 A Street, NE, Washington, DC, had housed the Museum of African Art from 1964 to 1986. The Frederick Douglass family had lived in two of these houses from 1871 to 1877.