Happy New Year! Time to catch up on a few headlines you may have missed over the holiday break.
03
Jan
2017
The Capitol Hill United Methodist Church is one of the newer church buildings on the Hill, standing on Seward Square since 1964. The congregation, however, has existed since 1960, when four Hill Methodist churches merged and moved into the house of worship of one of them: the Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. This congregation, in turn, […]
Roti Joining Chop’t, Taylor, Chipotle, and Rasa at F1rst in 2017 (JDLand) ANC Commissioner Drops Lawsuit After DOJ Turns Over Conviction Rate Data (DCist) Pose’s Luxury: How to Try Food From Top Chefs for Less (Washington City Paper) Officials Brief Hill Residents on Inaugural Security, Safety, and Protests (Capitol Hill Corner)
In researching the taverns of the Navy Yard neighborhood, I stumbled across something I really was not expecting: There once was a library to go along with all the other amenities in the area. Sadly, documentation of this is thin on the ground, but today we will look at the library and some of the men […]
A few short months after we started this site, news came out that CSX was planning to close Virginia Avenue on the southeast side of the Hill for several years to expand the train tunnel that many residents didn’t know ran below street level. Today, CSX completed the new tunnel that runs south of the […]