We periodically share updates from your ANC commissioners. Although these are most pertinent to particular single member districts (SMDs), we feel the information shared can be of interest to the whole Capitol Hill community. Are you an ANC commissioner who shares regular updates? Add thehillishome@gmail.com to your distribution list, please! –María Helena Carey Updates From […]
D.C. Council Paves Way for Digital Billboards on Exterior of Nationals Park (Washington City Paper) “Bardo to open Navy Yard beergarden, on the river, in March 2017. Trinidad location now permanently closed” (PoPville) Akridge Provides Update on Plans For Burnham Place (Urban Turf) Paradigm Buys 1st Street Lots, Planning Residential (JDLand) Saint Mark’s Vigil Commemorating […]
Today we will look at something that was lost not once, but twice: once on the battlefield, and again in the many renovations and rebuildings at the Washington Navy Yard. In the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg, Captain Ulrich Dahlgren (pic) of the United States Army was patrolling Hagerstown, MD, when he was struck […]
Essential Restaurants in the Capitol Hill Neighborhood of D.C. (Eater DC) Sapore Olive Oil closing Brick and Mortar on Capitol Hill Dec. 31st – Going Internet Only (PoPville) Krampusnacht D.C. Is A Dark, Weird, And Heartwarming Christmas Celebration (DCist) 100 Plus Residents Turn Out for Community Meeting on Capitol Hill Shootings (Capitol Hill Corner)
One of the more… ahem, colorful people inhumed at Congressional Cemetery is Miss Mary Ann Hall, a noted Madam. I wrote about about her in my scandal book. Recently, I was contacted about a Mary Ann Hall who apparently ran a house of ill repute in New York in 1866, with the question as to […]