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 […]
The ANC6B Outreach and Constituent Task Force is hosting a briefing tonight at 7pm at the Hill Center. As you know (and if you don’t here’s your PSA), the RFK parking lot is used for car and bus parking for many inauguration events. This means that a lot of visitors will be walking through the neighborhood […]
Development Update: Last Looks Up and Down for 2016 (JDLand) This 1941 plan shows another National Mall through Capitol Hill (Greater Greater Washington) D.C.’s first office building built on a pier to deliver in The Wharf next year (Curbed DC) An Early Peek Inside One Hill South (JDLand) Local Briefing: Krampusnacht Raised Nearly $4k, an […]
Taverns had an important function in the 18th Century, not just as a place to eat and drink, but where one could collect one’s mail or have a stolen coat returned. A reporter working under the name “Correspondent at Washington” wrote that they were a place to “drink Toddy, and play cards” in an article in The […]