Green Book Tours

Specialized Tours of Washington, DC

About the Tours

All tours are custom designed, and can accommodate anything from a private tour for one to a group as large as fifty. Theme tours or special topic tours are encouraged, especially for schools. Site-specific tours are also popular. Requests are common monuments and memorials, ghost tours, homes of the rich and famous and most can be fulfilled! Let Green Book Tours show you the vast array of remarkable places both public and private that our Nation's Capital has to offer!

To inquire about pricing, tours, and availability contact Clift@greenbooktours.com

Some sample tours:

PERMANENT WASHINGTONIANS

These tours focus on five of Washington's best known cemeteries: Congressional, Glenwood, Mt. Olivet, Oak Hill, and Rock Creek. Washington's oldest burial ground Rock Creek (1719) houses not only the best collection of funerary sculpture in the city, but also the famous statue of "Grief" by Augustus St. Gaudens. Oak Hill Cemetery, located high atop a hill in Georgetown, is home to many of the city's notables: William Wilson Corcoran, John Peter Van Ness, and more recently Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. A beautiful Victorian chapel and a monumental high relief sculpture by Tiffany Studios of New York also add to Oak Hill's charm. For local and national history buffs, this tour is a must!

BEST ADDRESSES

Best Addresses is based on the award-winning book that chronicles the history of Washington's most "distinguished" apartment houses. Take a couple of hours to walk through one of the capital city's most beautiful neighborhoods, learning about the eccentric tenants, business-savvy developers, and remarkable architects involved with these places, some so exclusive they are listed only by their address! Though access to the individual apartments is highly unlikely, many of the desk attendants and door personnel are very willing to let us have a quick walk through the lobbies that residents take great pride in coming home to every day!

GREAT ESTATES OF WASHINGTON

This tour takes us through the historic Cleveland Park and Woodley Park neighborhoods, once home to some of Washington's earliest and grandest estates. Stroll through the ancient boxwoods of Rosedale still considered the oldest existent frame building or onto the great lawn of the impressive home President Buchanan used as a summer White House. We will travel past the homes known affectionately as "Little England" and which stand across from the original estate of National Geographic founder Gardiner Greene Hubbard. Have cameras ready for a shot of the famous Washington skyline from the grounds of one former estate that took its name from the French for "Beautiful View".

SIXTEENTH STREET

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is undoubtedly America's best known address. How many people, however, know any details about the street leading to the front door of the White House? Starting with the famed St. John's Church and Hay-Adams Hotel on Lafayette Square, the tour heads north to include such sights as the home of the Pullman railway car family, the headquarters of the National Geographic Society, an early I.M. Pei showcase of modern design, and the remarkable Scottish Rite Temple. We conclude just one block west from the historic U Street corridor, which now offers many of the city's better known cafes, restaurants and shops.

Contact: Clift@greenbooktours.com