PEnnsylvania 6-5000. ENterprise 4-3200. KLondike 5-1212. LIncoln 7-2321. You may remember some of these from a time long ago: This was how phone numbers were communicated in the days before the telephone company thought you could remember 7 – or even 10 – numbers. The last is of interest here, because it was the exchange […]
Finding topics to write about each week about lost Capitol Hill buildings and institutions can be tricky, as so many have disappeared without a trace. Sometimes, like for the Car Barn, at least the structure remains to remind one of the street cars that once called it home. Other places, like Lincoln’s boarding house on […]
Capitol Hill school gardens have begun adding pepper patches to their primrose paths, real or imagined. Long the province of beautification and greening efforts, our Hill schoolyards may become more than visual treats with the vision provided by the Peabody Early Childhood Campus edible school yard, dedicated late last week in a school-wide assembly. The […]
If you’re anything like me (a scary thought I know), one of the great games on Capitol Hill is imagining all the things that could be done with some of the beautiful historic buildings that seem to dot pretty much every block. That game gets a second level when the buildings are abandoned — trying […]
Repurposing churches is all the rage these days. Whether they’re being turned into condos, or offices, or bars, the grand spaces and architectural details give the architects in charge a huge variety of options. In some cases, though, it seems as if the best idea would be to keep it as a church. Today’s subject, […]