Continuing our series of “How the Schools of Capitol Hill Got Their Name,” I’ll follow up on fellow tour guide and Hill dad Tim Krepp’s recent article with a discussion of my son’s school, Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School. Zachary Taylor is a no-brainer– Old Rough and Ready, Mexican-American War hero and 12th President of the United […]
Our final ghost story for this month finds us back on the Capitol grounds, and the Russell Senate Office Building in particular. When it came time to clear the site preparatory to building the first office building for the Senate, a number of old buildings had to be torn down, including the old Casualty Hospital, […]
During a hearing in 1962 Representative H. R. Gross asked a witness “You have heard that old saying, Mr. Macy, that there is nothing so permanent in Washington as something temporary, have you not?” It was hardly a new sentiment at the time; one reason why the temporary structures built during WWII were made to […]
With the reopening of Eastern Market, it seems only right to look at the pre-history of what is again the center of our neighborhood. Long before Cluss built his masterpiece, there was another market, one which L’Enfant had planned into his earliest drawings of Washington DC: Eastern Branch Market. In 1791, it made sense to […]
On September 28, 1928, 127th Zeppelin took off from its factory in Germany. It was named Graf Zeppelin, in honor of the founder of the airship company, who had died about 10 years earlier. During the next nine years, the Graf Zeppelin travelled over one million miles and visited the US a total of five […]