If you’re anything like me, to you Providence Park is mainly important for its hosting of Soccer on the Hill for the younger crowd. Only a small plaque (part of which is currently stolen) indicates Providence Park’s history as the site of one of DC’s oldest hospitals. In today’s column, I’ll look at the history […]
While in my usual columns about lost Capitol Hill I write about landmarks that are completely lost, it is good to see that I am not the only person trying to remember some of these buildings. Today I write about a place that I found out about only because there is still a small memento […]
We’re a little behind on our reporting on this but on Monday at about 1:15 pm I received an automated text alert from Alert DC that there had been a bank robbery on the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, SE. Local news outlets did not seem to pick up the story, but we now have […]
Christ Church, located today 620 G Street, SE, was built in 1807 and consecrated in 1809, is the oldest church in Washington DC. It was not, however, the first building used by this congregation. That honor goes to a small wooden structure located nearby. Christ Church was created by an act of the Maryland legislature. […]
When those fancy new multi-space meters were installed around the Southeast side of Capitol Hill, I assumed that they were about efficiency (fitting more parking spots on each block), aesthetics (2 big green machines in place of 20 ugly metal meters), and revenue (the city can increase rates more easily and reduce the frequency of […]