Washington D.C Tour

Tours of the Pentagon are available to schools, educational organizations and other select groups by reservation only. Groups interested in touring the Pentagon should contact the Pentagon Tour Office at (703) 697-1776. ... [Read More]

United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 1st Session: Visiting Washington D.C.
A map of the Washington, DC transit system, showing subway lines and stations. Note, the Blue Subway Line, Capitol South station will take you the closest to House of Representatives office buildings. ... [Read More]

DC info
Washington has a temperate midlatitude climate with mean temperatures of 3 deg C(37 deg F) in January and 26 deg C (79 deg F) in July. Summers are hot andhumid, and yearly precipitation totals nearly 1,016 mm (40 in). Contemporary City As the seat of the U.S. government, Washington plays a unique role both innational and international life. As the only major planned city in the country,it is also one of the eastern seaboard's most impressive. The centralnorthwestern portion of the city, surrounding the Mall, is the focus ofgovernmental activity and is defined by the structures housing the various unitsof government: the Capitol , atop Capitol Hill; the White House , at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue;the Supreme Court ; the Library of Congress ; the State Department; the Justice Department ; the Federal Bureau of Investigation ; andmany more. Interspersed among these buildings are the Washington Monument (163m/535 ft; 1884); the Lincoln (1922) and Jefferson (1943) memorials on eit ... [Read More]

Tom Lantos - Representing California's 12th District - Visiting Washington, D.C.
Public tours of the Kennedy Center are available Monday through Friday, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M. Tours begin at the Friends of The Kennedy Center tour desk on Level 1. Tours commence approximately every fifteen minutes and last about one hour. Tours are not available on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year's Day. For more information, please contact The Friends of Kennedy Center at (202) 416-8341. ...

Congressional tours can be requested through my district office. These tours are conducted Monday through Friday at 8:30 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. The tour includes a special greeting by a member of the Visitor Services Office Staff, a tour of the Thomas Jefferson Building led by an L.C. docent and an introduction to the "American Treasures" exhibition. ... [Read More]

Tour Washington, D.C.
Location: The Kennedy Center is located on the banks of the Potomac River in Washington, at the intersection of New Hampshire Avenue, NW, and the Rock Creek Parkway. Your tour will leave from the desk on the A level. ...

Description: The tour includes a special greeting by a member of the Visitor Services Office Staff, a tour of the Thomas Jefferson Building led by an L.C. docent and an introduction to the "American Treasures" exhibition. ... [Read More]

United States House of Representatives, 109th Congress, 1st Session: Tour DC
TheWhite House - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Open Tuesday through Saturday,visitors are welcome from 10:00 am to 12 noon. The waiting area is notin effect between Labor Day & Memorial Day. This is a self-guided tour,however Tour Officers are stationed in each room to answer questions. Ticketsare required for this tour during spring and summer months and can be acquiredat no cost at the "Visitors Kiosk" on the Ellipse of the WhiteHouse starting at 8:00 a.m. on the morning you wish to tour. Only one memberof the family is required. A time will be issued for later in the day between10am and noon. Guided Tours (reserved through Congressional offices) --There are only ten Congressional Tour tickets issued per office per week.Congressional offices are not guaranteed tickets. They are given out ona first come, first serve basis. Our office is required to submit namesa month in advance. Since the White House is occasionally closed for officialevents, it is recommended that vis ... [Read More]

Congressman David Dreier -- Visiting Washington, D.C.
Fourteenth and C Street, SW. See how U.S. Currency is printed. The General Public tour is a 35-minute tour offered between 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. This tour is closed on weekends and Federal holidays. The public tour is designed to accommodate individuals, families, and groups. During the summer, they offer extended evening (5:00p.m. to 6:40p.m.) public tours from June through August. Congressional Tours for groups of 10 or less are available. Congressional Tour times are 8:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. during the entire year. During the summer months an additional Congressional tours is offered 4:30 p.m. Group Tours: (202) 874-2155. Tour Information: (202) 874-3019. Metro: Smithsonian. ... [Read More]

Cyber-tour of historical medical sites in Washington, D.C.
The Washington, D.C. area has a rich medical history with many of its medical institutions originating in the 19th century. Now history buffs can "tour" many of these places online by clicking on http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medtour/intro.html . The tour of 30 sites was prepared by Inci A. Bowman, Ph.D., a retired medical librarian in Washington, D.C. NLM hosts the tour on its History of Medicine website. ...

Many of the facilities of historical medical interest are still in existence, such as the Clara Barton National Historical Site in Glen Echo, Maryland. Other spots on the cyber-tour include lesser known sites such as Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum in downtown Alexandria which opened in 1792 and operated continuously until 1933. Past customers included George Washington and Robert E. Lee. It now operates as a museum and has a collection of more than 8,000 objects including pill rollers, drug mills, and journals and letters. Both of these institutions have their own web sites, and there are links to them from the cyber-tour. ... [Read More]