A Decade In The Making: Capitol Hill’s Hine School Development Prepares For Opening (BizNow) What’s next for The Bullpen, the beloved Nats Park destination? Not even the owner is sure. (Washington Post) Frager’s Hardware gets new life in changing Capitol Hill (WUSA9) Did their school have ties to slavery? Now students try to make sense […]
Writing these columns, I sometimes spend hours researching a topic and teasing out numerous strands to build up a coherent narrative and explicate an arcane point of Capitol Hill history. Other times, I find a single article that I just have to share with the world–after spending about five minutes finding a little bit of […]
New 11th Street Bridge Park renderings reveal skinnier bridge (Curbed) 10-Unit Development in Hill East Will Move Forward By End of Year (Urban Turf) The DC Council mulls scaling back TOPA rights for some renters (Greater Greater Washington) D.C.’s Debut Natural Wine Bar Boasts Drake Quotes and Local Pours (Eater) EMCAC Votes to Keep Eastern Mkt 7th Street Closed […]
Last week, we looked at the Second Baptist Church, located at 4th Street and Virginia Avenue since the early days of Washington D.C. It was one of the many quiet churches that saw to its parishioners’ spiritual interests with no fuss throughout most of the 19th Century. That would change in with the early 1880s with the […]
As a dog owner, I always assumed that the city had a rule against dogs on patios and quietly enjoyed how infrequently it was enforced. Until recently, city officials seemed to leave it up to business owners to decide whether or not to allow canine patrons on their outdoor patio space. This week, however, things […]