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
This week’s column should be more accurately called a Found Capitol Hill column, for it is about something I found that belongs to a long-ago era, when Washington DC was home to the best baseball team in the country.
While I was escaping the heat of DC this summer, a great change came over Lincoln Park: The Emancipation Statue there was cleaned up and about 100 years of copper carbonate was removed from it, changing it from a statue with a greenish cast to a deep brown. I didn’t watch the transformation, but […]
Hurricane Irene has come and gone, leaving a fair bit of cleanup in its wake. Some people went out to find their cars had been destroyed by trees, others simply had to sweep up a few extra leaves that had been blown around. Jeremy Kenney and Megan Smith were among the latter group, and were cleaning […]
I know, I know, right now, it’s all hurricanes all the time. But try to cast your mind back to, oh, last Tuesday, when the city was rattled by an earthquake. It was a startling event, but, as GreaterGreaterWashington showed, hardly unique in the history of DC. Obviously, I was intrigued – was there a […]
In looking at the movie theaters that were built on Capitol Hill over the years, there are three distinct phases: At first, theaters were built on main drags: 8th Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, H Street. Then, as demand grew and theaters proliferated, they were built in and among the residences. Finally, as color spectacles became the […]