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Lost Capitol Hill: Elizabeth Haines and Her Department Store

December 12th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

One if the things I learned when researching my house history book was the number of women who were involved in Real Estate, whether as partners to their spouses, executors of their husbands’s estates, or on their own. At least on the Hill, the concept of the stay-at-home wife who was responsible solely for the [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: Lindbergh on the Hill

December 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

The list of people who have grown up or stopped through Capitol Hill as a young person and then returned later to be honored in one way or another is long. Rare, however, is the tumult that greeted aviator Charles Lindbergh when he returned to the United States from his record-setting flight that forever gave [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: Finding History at the Old Naval Hospital

November 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

The Hill Center had its grand opening on November 19, showing to the community the results of the amazing amount of work that has been done there over the past years. Obviously, the open house was about the future, not the past, but to me, there’s always some history that can be found there. So [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: The 1981 Capitol Master Plan

November 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Washington DC is a planned city, as everyone knows. Peter L’Enfant’s plan from 1791 continues to guide the city even today, and changes to its streets are often allowed or denied based on a couple of lines drawn on parchment over 220 years ago. Which is why it is so surprising to be walking around [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: Surrat Trial Juror George A. Bohrer

November 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Spending the week on a jury made me wonder about some famous DC trials, and the jurors who sat on them. This reminded me of George A. Bohrer, a long-time Capitol Hill resident, DC Councilmember, Alderman, Justice of the Peace, and city assessor – and member of the jury before whom John H. Surratt was [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: Temperance Halloween

October 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

As we lift a glass of pumpkin beer while we watch our kids scarf even more candy today to celebrate Halloween, let’s take a moment to think back to a far darker and sadder Halloween, one that seemed to be the last time – ever – that you could enjoy said pumpkin beer, or any [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: E-Voting in the Capitol, pt 2.

October 11th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Last week, we looked at Thomas Edison’s failed attempt to get Congress to change its ways and vote electronically. Nonetheless, it was clearly an idea that needed to be implemented at some point, and so today we’ll look at some of the further attempts made to improve the way that Congress votes.

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Lost Capitol Hill: E-Voting in the Capitol

October 3rd, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Electronic voting as a means of choosing elected officials has not taken this country by storm, and in fact may be on the wane. Issues with accuracy and transparency have dogged these machines from the outset. But there is one group that has been using such automated systems without problems for over 40 years: Congress [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: The Columbia Street-Railway Company

September 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Capitol Hill

Last week’s H Street festival showed, once again, what a vibrant neighborhood this has once again become. Still missing in the picture are, of course, the light rail cars for which the tracks have been laid. And that’s a pity, because it was street cars that made H street what it was originally. Today, we’ll [...]

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Lost Capitol Hill: The Standard Bottling Works

September 5th, 2011 · No Comments · Capitol Hill

Hurricane Irene has come and gone, leaving a fair bit of cleanup in its wake. Some people went out to find their cars had been destroyed by trees, others simply had to sweep up a few extra leaves that had been blown around. Jeremy Kenney and Megan Smith were among the latter group, and were cleaning [...]

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