2025 Photo Scavenger Hunt
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3/10 -Spite
This has become the Spite House, where allies get aid and intelligence cut off because they were not thankful enough or didn’t meet a dress code, where inspectors general get fired for investigating Trump and Musk, where trading partners are threatened with tariffs, where DC is forced to remove the Black Lives Matter plaza, where anyone involved in the impeachment investigations is threatened with prison. The list keeps getting longer…
3/10/2025 SPITE
In SPITE of the fact that spring is still 10 days away, daffodils are already blooming.
3/10 – Some drivers may believe bike lanes are created in SPITE of them, but are designed for the safety of all road users.
3/10 -Spite
Interesting. I wonder it this is narrower than the old DC house I live in. Mine’s about 11’ wide.
The Hollensbury Spite House is a spite house located at 523 Queen Street in Alexandria, Virginia. The narrow building measures 7-feet 6-inches (2.3 m) wide and is often called the skinniest house in the United States. The house has drawn international attention, being covered by numerous news outlets, and was once featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. It is frequently visited by tourists who often pose in front of the building and is also included on local history tours. The house is 350 square-feet (32.5 sq m) but also includes an outdoor patio and garden, providing additional entertaining space. Because of its narrow front door and small interior space, the house is decorated with smaller furniture pieces and antiques.
Hollensbury Spite House
Address
523 Queen Street
Town or city
Alexandria, Virginia38°48′25.9″N77°2′42.3″W
Completed
1830The building’s namesake, John Hollensbury, reportedly built the house in 1830 to stop people loitering in the alley adjoining his house and to prevent wagon-wheel hubs from damaging the house’s exterior walls. This is the most commonly known story as to why the house was built, but there are also two other possibilities, the first being due to a dispute with his neighbor, and the second as a gift to his two daughters. Whichever story is true, the scenario involving a man who built a home out of spite is the one that has made the Hollensbury Spite House a local landmark. It is one of four spite houses in Alexandria, the others being built in the 1800s as well.
3/10 spite
I didn’t make it to the White House or the spiteful removal of Black Lives Matter Plaza (RIP), but this art on the MBT entrance from 8th St NE is in honor of the movement.
It’s made from 1,488 paper stars and water soluble thread. I hope it persists in spite of the current climate.
3/11/2025 Track
Once upon a time, the Washington and Old Dominion railroad ran to the rail yards in Potomac Yard. Sadly, when the railroad was abandoned, the section of the W&OD in Alexandria was not part of what became the W&OD Trail. A portion of the W&OD was saved and became the Mount Jefferson Trail. During a recent renovation of the trail, a small section of the track was uncovered.
#scavhunt 3/11 – The Fairfax Blvd cycle TRACK next to the new Marymount University building in Balston
3/11 track
My wordle guesses today were
GREAT TRAIN TRACK
so I felt I had no choice in the type of track I should photograph
3/11/25 – track
This is the metro track for the orange & silver line, in between Ballston and East Falls Church.
Pic taken from the Patrick Henry overpass
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