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
Capitol Hill has a couple favorite sons that are well-known: J. Edgar Hoover and John Philip Sousa come to mind. But there’s also some whose connection to the Hill are not nearly as well known. One of these is the General whose reply to a German request to surrender has become world famous as a […]
In last week’s episode, we heard about Albert Grant: Builder, architect, and Civil War hero. Grant had given up his work in Wisconsin in order to enlist as a Captain in the Union army, and had fought throughout the war. Today, we will see how his life continued after the war.
On the property on which the Folger Shakespeare Library sits, there once stood a row of grand houses known as Grant’s Row, after the architect and builder who created them. The buildings were the grandest on the Hill when they were built, in 1871, and would have probably still be considered such if they had […]
In searching for something completely different, I came upon a picture of the Speaker of the House protecting their head from being pelted by something. No, it isn’t Steny Hoyer, and the projectiles aren’t tea-party brick-bats, but rather Representative Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, and he is protecting himself from large hailstones. This bizarre and – […]
In looking for picture of the subject of last week’s column, I saw that there was a church next door, one that had also been knocked down to make way for the Adams Library of Congress building. A quick search of the records turned up the information that this was the predecessor to the Lutheran […]