This week’s column is, in a way, poorly named, as it concerns itself not with something lost from Capitol Hill, but rather, something that never was built in the first place. Nonetheless, it gives me a chance to look back on L’Enfant’s plan of Washington once again, and this opportunity is one that I will […]
How many times have we walked by a school on Capitol Hill, or for that matter, sent our kids to one, and remained relatively incurious as to the origins of its name? Thanks to DC’s vigorous school choice policies, parents on Capitol Hill are relentlessly educated consumers, heavily researching all facets of our local schools, […]
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 […]
Most of the ghost stories told about Capitol Hill are old. It seems that either there was a lot more paranormal activity here in the 19th century, or people spoke about it more – and newspapers were more willing to publish stories about haunted buildings. In researching the ghost stories, I found only one that […]
As I have done my research of the ghosts of Capitol Hill, I have tried to understand why ghosts appear in the first place, what keeps some people around the area long after they have died. A recurring theme is that of someone whose work is not complete, that some closure needs to happen, that […]