On Saturday, The Hill is Home’s very own Elizabeth Festa had an article published in the Washington Post real estate section about Gessford Court. She describes the joys of living in this oasis in the middle of the city, and talks to current and former residents about their lives there. Unfortunately, the Post only afforded […]
The wonderful thing about living on Capitol Hill is that there are always those who have lived here much longer than you, who can tell you about what it was like long before you moved here. I had that happen to me recently at a party, where a neighbor mentioned the Penn Theater, which was […]
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.
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 […]