After a hopefully entertaining excursion into the spiritual world, I return again to this plane of existence, and my usual musings on Capitol Hill history. Today’s subject is a temporary hospital built on a piece of vacant land in the wide-open spaces of eastern Washington DC during the Civil War. It was named after the […]
The future of Friendship House still remains uncertain, as financing issues have erupted in a family’s bid to buy the property, renovate it, and install a daycare, medical offices and residences there, jeopardizing the family’s winning bid. Sonja Sweek and her family were the successful bidders on the historic property, which has a long and […]
The story of William Tunnicliff’s taverns continues this week, as Tunnicliff abandoned his Pennsylvania Avenue location for a much better site nearer the Capitol, then under construction. In this week’s post, he plays host to two important names in the new capital, including the President of the United States. Follow me over the jump for […]
Yes, citizens, arrests are made on some of those crime incident reports our texting systems and email listservs pepper us with. The Metropolitan Police Department has announced an arrest has been made in connection with the recent robberies at the Safeway on 14th Street, SE. Quinton Raymond Jones, 48, of the 1800 block of D Street, SE […]
Tunnicliff’s Tavern is a popular Hill watering hole that has been a local favorite since the early 1980s. Its name, however, has a much longer history reaching back to before Washington was the capital of the country. From the mid 1790s, during a ten-year period, a man named William Tunnicliff ran taverns that were important […]