We all now know that this winter has dumped the most snow on the nation’s capital than any previous winter – and there may be more to come, soon. I was all set to talk about the winter of 1898/9 and began working my way through the newspapers of the time when I became, well, […]
I was going to write about yet another boarding house that used to be on the Hill, but then another storm came along, one that has drawn many comparisons to the Knickerbocker storm of 1922, so it would behoove me to write today about that storm.
We’ve been lucky this winter that the big snow falls have come on weekends, when there is less for it to disrupt. Given DC and its population’s general inability to deal with snow, it would be interesting to see what would happen were the snow to hit at a truly inopportune time. Like, say, the […]
When the James Madison Memorial Building finally opened on May 28, 1980, it filled a block that had been empty for almost 20 years. This was a block that had housed a great variety of buildings whose businesses had catered to the workers who crowded the Congressional buildings that abutted it to the north and […]
Just north of Lincoln Park, where Tennessee and Constitution Avenues intersect with 13th, lies one of Capitol Hill’s most historic schools, Maury Elementary. Maury has been a fixture of the Hill since its construction in 1886 and is one of the best examples of the eight room schoolhouse that was standard in the 1880s and […]