Get to know Kalorama

Kalorama is the Washington, D.C., enclave of choice for power brokers, tycoons, and diplomats. Six Presidents also lived here (pre- and post-presidency): Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft. The neighborhood is divided into two parts: Kalorama Triangle is on the east side of Connecticut Avenue, while Sheridan-Kalorama, also known as Kalorama Heights, is on the west. Kalorama Triangle is a little more urbanized, borders Adams Morgan, and has a bit more retail and a greater stock of apartment buildings and attached rowhouses. Kalorama Heights sits on a hill overlooking Rock Creek Park and is the literal and metaphorical peak of D.C. real estate, boasting majestic mansions and landmark apartment buildings. Keep an eye out for Kalorama’s historic call boxes, originally erected in the late 1800s and now transformed into miniature works of art highlighting the neighborhood’s historic residents.

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Living in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., is a beautiful city with gorgeous architecture and a vibrant cultural life that also just happens to be the nation’s capital. Of course, Washington, D.C., is a company town — the company being the American government — but only a quarter of Washington, D.C., residents are federal employees, with the biggest employers being the major hospitals and universities. Washington, D.C., is an exemplar of urban planning, thanks to the vision of military engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant. L’Enfant’s plan symbolically put the people in charge by placing Congress, and not the White House, at the pinnacle of the city, with D.C.’s wide boulevards radiating out from the “People’s House” on Capitol Hill. L’Enfant also laid out the National Mall, which stretches for more than two miles from Capitol Hill to the Potomac River, creating a public space for marches, monuments, and museums.