Much is made of the fact that the Marine Commandant’s House is the oldest continually-operated Federal building in DC. It has stood at the north end of the Marine Barracks since 1806, five years after the Barracks were built. The Barracks themselves, which run down the east and west side of the Square, are much […]
Capitol Hill has a couple favorite sons that are well-known: J. Edgar Hoover and John Philip Sousa come to mind. But there’s also some whose connection to the Hill are not nearly as well known. One of these is the General whose reply to a German request to surrender has become world famous as a […]
On the property on which the Folger Shakespeare Library sits, there once stood a row of grand houses known as Grant’s Row, after the architect and builder who created them. The buildings were the grandest on the Hill when they were built, in 1871, and would have probably still be considered such if they had […]
In searching for something completely different, I came upon a picture of the Speaker of the House protecting their head from being pelted by something. No, it isn’t Steny Hoyer, and the projectiles aren’t tea-party brick-bats, but rather Representative Pat Boland of Pennsylvania, and he is protecting himself from large hailstones. This bizarre and – […]
In looking for picture of the subject of last week’s column, I saw that there was a church next door, one that had also been knocked down to make way for the Adams Library of Congress building. A quick search of the records turned up the information that this was the predecessor to the Lutheran […]