18 Mar 2019

Capitol Hill:

ICYMI: Pretend It’s Spring and Watch “Welcome to Capitol Hill”!

Looks like last week’s spring teaser was just that; we won’t be seeing temperatures in the 70s until next weekend at the very earliest. The good news is that DC’s weather is crazier than the tropics, so if you’re reading this later today in your shorts, you know what happened! But if you need a […]


06 Sep 2018

ANC:

Updates From Your ANC Commissioners

We periodically share updates from your ANC commissioners, edited for brevity and clarity. Although these are most pertinent to particular single member districts (SMDs), we feel the information shared can be of interest to the whole Capitol Hill community. Are you an ANC commissioner who shares regular updates? Add thehillishome@gmail.com to your distribution list, please! […]


10 Jul 2017

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: The Short, Unhappy Life of William M. Steele

Last week, we looked at the origins of Pipetown and the rather bizarre noise complaint that brought a number of its citizens into conflict with the law and into the court of Judge Ivory Kimball (pic). Unfortunately, this was not the end of court appearances for one of those fined on that occasion. William Steele went […]


21 Sep 2015

History:

Lost Capitol Hill: Navy Yard Hill

When researching the early history of Capitol Hill and the Navy Yard –particularly the neighborhood surrounding the Yard–, I discovered that there was one name being used that I was unfamiliar with: Navy Yard Hill. Today, I will look at this usage. In the early years of Washington D.C., there were clearly two neighborhoods on what […]


13 Jan 2015

News:

Hill Buzz

JDLand noticed that some signs on the Southwest Freeway that direct drivers to the Navy Yard area for gas should probably be updated. The Washington Post looked at the possibility of the Anacostia River being swimmable in the future. District Source reported that the Zoning Commission said that the proposal to build an Angelika movie […]


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