The future of Reservation 13 is far from clear, and it is even uncertain when the future might become clearer. I will stick to discussing its past, as I have done many times already, whether about its jail, crematorium, or almshouse. Long before the site became a dumping ground for any buildings the good citizens of […]
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the first schools in the Navy Yard neighborhood, and how two buildings formerly used for other purposes were repurposed for this new task. Today, I will look at other schools, including some buildings that are still in use, in the neighborhood. In spite of their slipshod nature, the two […]
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 […]