Only at Congressional Guided Tour
Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery, sharing the secrets and stories of this hidden gem. Among the 65,000 burials at Congressional are scores of noteworthy citizens who left their mark on the city and the nation. Find out more about their amazing stories. All tours meet inside the front gate of the [...]
John Philip Sousa Birthday Concert 2022
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesHCC will start the program at 10:30am with a short awards ceremony, followed by a brief lecture by a John Philip Sousa impersonator himself! The Marine Corps band will enter through the 17th Street gate at precisely 11:00am for a 25 minute concert at the grave site, located near the chapel. Rain or shine, free [...]
Tombs & Tomes Book Club November (In Person)
Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesTombs and Tomes is Congressional Cemetery's book club. We meet every other month in our historic Chapel (unless otherwise noted), and we discuss primarily non-fiction books. Our book selections have no rhyme and reason; however, our choices tend to stray towards the macabre, as is natural for a cemetery book club. Our very first meeting was in September 2013 and we chose to read Stiff, by Mary Roach (pictured here with Doug Graves, Congressional Cemetery's mascot and NOT a real skeleton!).
Tombs & Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
Selection: The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost By: Peter Manseau From GoodReads.com: A story of faith and fraud in post–Civil War America, told through the lens of a photographer who claimed he could capture images of the dead. In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn [...]
Honey Pickup with DC Beekeepers Alliance
Did you order some of our Congressional Cemetery "Rest in Bees" Honey? Do you want to pick it up as soon as possible? Well, you are in luck! Stop by the side of the Gatehouse between 8:30 AM and 12:00 PM on Saturday, November 12 to pickup any honey you have purchased. Jackie Spainhour, President, [...]
Only at Congressional Guided Tour
Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery, sharing the secrets and stories of this hidden gem. Among the 65,000 burials at Congressional are scores of noteworthy citizens who left their mark on the city and the nation. Find out more about their amazing stories. All tours meet inside the front gate of the [...]
Notes from the Crypt Concert
Historic Congressional Cemetery Chapel 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin us in our historic 1903 Chapel for an intimate concert featuring a few of D.C.'s best musicians! This chamber music concert is free to attend but there is limited seating. The event will be limited to approximately 50 seats, thus, seating is first-come, first-served, so we recommend arriving early to select your seat. Don’t [...]
Sunday Stroll in the Cemetery
Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesDocents may pick their favorite stories or give a specialized tour, rather than giving a standard broad look at the cemetery's history. Join us for a grab bag of history and lore! Our Sunday tours will begin at 1 pm, and will be an informal look at the history of Congressional Cemetery. Please be aware [...]
Only at Congressional Guided Tour
Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin us for a guided tour of Congressional Cemetery, sharing the secrets and stories of this hidden gem. Among the 65,000 burials at Congressional are scores of noteworthy citizens who left their mark on the city and the nation. Find out more about their amazing stories. All tours meet inside the front gate of the [...]
Mostly Mothers: The Eternal Maternal at Congressional Cemetery Tour
Historic Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street, Southeast, Washington, DC, United StatesOriginally created for Mother's Day visitors, this tour focuses exclusively on women for whom motherhood was central to their identities, their lives and sometimes their deaths. Women celebrated on this tour may have been biological mothers, such as Lucy Bell, who devoted her life to fighting for her family’s freedom from slavery, and expectant mother [...]
