More books to read, but about DC

1. Capital Losses by James Goode about exemplary buildings and structures demolished over the years. Now in its second edition, the book is well written and full of amazing photographs of so many great buildings that are lost.

2. Capital Assets by Kathy Smith (the book is available from Cultural Tourism DC) is about the cultural resources in various DC neighborhoods from a cultural heritage and tourism readiness perspective.

3. Two books about DC trolley systems are One Hundred Years of Capital Traction: The Story of Streetcars in the Nation's Capital by Leroy O. King, Jr. and Capital Transit: Washington's Street Cars: The Final Years 1933-1962 by Peter Kohler.

4. Washington At Home is out-of-print, and is another book by Kathy Smith about DC neighborhoods and their history, and was published long before the series of Arcadia photo books came about.

5. Sam Smith's online memoir Multitudes, which has some great writing about Washington in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Another great set of items to read are the "context statements," or histories submitted as part of historic district nominations. Most of these documents are available at the Washingtoniana Collection. They should be put up online if you ask me... Shorter versions are extant in publications produced for the DC Historic Preservation Office. These guides are online here and available in printed form from DCHPO.