We all now know that this winter has dumped the most snow on the nation’s capital than any previous winter – and there may be more to come, soon. I was all set to talk about the winter of 1898/9 and began working my way through the newspapers of the time when I became, well, […]
I was going to write about yet another boarding house that used to be on the Hill, but then another storm came along, one that has drawn many comparisons to the Knickerbocker storm of 1922, so it would behoove me to write today about that storm.
On January 6 longtime Hill East resident Ethel Funches passed away, leaving a legacy on the 1600 block of D Street Northeast, and a formidable record in the annals of women’s amateur golf. Funches was 96. Katie Hodge said Funches made quite an impression on her when she and her realtor visited her house when […]
We’ve been lucky this winter that the big snow falls have come on weekends, when there is less for it to disrupt. Given DC and its population’s general inability to deal with snow, it would be interesting to see what would happen were the snow to hit at a truly inopportune time. Like, say, the […]
When the James Madison Memorial Building finally opened on May 28, 1980, it filled a block that had been empty for almost 20 years. This was a block that had housed a great variety of buildings whose businesses had catered to the workers who crowded the Congressional buildings that abutted it to the north and […]