Robert Pohl worked for many years as a computer programmer but recovered from that and became a full time stay-at-home dad. With his son now in school, he has expanded his horizons and become a self-taught historian. He has written books about his house as well as Emancipation in the District of Columbia. You can reach Robert at Robert[at]thehillishome.com
The Navy Yard neighborhood of Capitol Hill was the first real neighborhood to develop in D.C. While the city as a whole existed entirely to support the new Federal government and was therefore full of clerks, this neighborhood was there for the Navy Yard and so here lived all those needed to build and repair […]
I have previously written about the Statue of Freedom on top of the Capitol, how it got its hat, and how it does not, infact, limit the size of the statues in Washington. I will return to this subject one more time today because of a book I just began reading, Freedom Rising: Washington in […]
Since Hill institution Remington’s closed, and their sign was removed, an older sign proclaiming that this is the “Golden Garter” has returned to the 600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE. It’s a throwback to an older – and maybe even wilder – time in Hill history, and has attracted the attention of numerous writers, including […]
Last week, I had the opportunity for touring one of the most magnificent buildings on Capitol Hill – the large Beaux Arts building at the foot of New Jersey Avenue SW, right on the Anacostia. If you’ve ever been to Yards Park, you know exactly the building I’m talking about. Below, some of the pictures […]
The last two weeks, we looked at the odd notch in the NE corner of the L’Enfant map of Washington. We learned about the springs that made it such important land, and the various uses for it over the years. Today, we’ll look at the final use of the place before it turned into just […]