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 […]
Last week, we looked at the strange shape of L’Enfant’s original Washington City, and how a spring located there was responsible. Today, we’ll look at some of the people who owned the land in the early years of the city. After the original owners, the Gibsons, had moved on, the next owner of the spring […]
If you look at an old map of D.C., one that still has the city of Washington within its original boundaries, there is a strange notch to be seen at its northeast corner. Instead of Boundary Road (today’s Florida Avenue) continuing gracefully southeast into the Anacostia, it suddenly dips south along 15th Street before turning […]
One of the dangers of researching a topic for one of my columns is that it will turn out that there is not enough information to warrant writing it up, or that it does not, in fact, have any relation to the Hill, even such a tenuous one as did last week’s. In either of […]