Today we discover an exotic, international neighborhood only steps from the Mall, at Chinatown. You can use the Chinatown metro station to get there, but our walking tour starts at the Judiciary Square metro station.

We start off at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and the National Building Museum. We walk on into the Chinatown area, appreciating some of the architecture along the way. (2:29)

We Play You Are My Everything by Lyndsey Highlander, from Richmond, Virginia, who comes to us courtesy of Garageband.com. (9:27)

Julie begins to talk about the history of immigration in the Chinatown area, and how the Chinese immigrants displaced the earlier German immigrants. Then we visit St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, which was built by the German immigrants. (12:41)

At the Corner of 6th and H we talk about the Wah Luck House, and Mary Surrat's Boarding House. Here we're in the heart of DC's Chinatown, and there are dozens of wonderful restaurants within a couple blocks of this point. (17:19)

We visit Chinatown's most notable feature the Chinatown Gateway Arch, and Julie talks about the history of Chinatown over the last thirty or so years. Mark reads the inscription at the bottom of the arch. (20:01)

We visit the location of the Goethe Institut, in a building that was built by DRI in the 90s. (25:24)

We play Chinatown, by maestross, which comes to us courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network. (27:24)

We visit the Greater New Hope Baptist Church, which was originally a Synagogue, and the 19th century Calvary Baptist Church, designed by Adolph Cluss, who designed quite a number of buildings in Washington DC in the mid to late 19th Century. (31:05)

We finish up at 9th and G, across from the National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery, near the west-most entrance of the Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro Station. (36:08)

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