Last night the Hill Center kicked off its first art exhibit, Five Artists * Five Points of View, showcasing artwork including photography, painting and collage by world-renowned artists, many with ties not only to the Washington area but to Capitol Hill. If you miss Alan Braley’s large color-saturated canvases at The Village at Eastern Market, […]
Rendering Courtesy of the Hill Center The Hill Center is moving along a pretty fast clip at this point, and will be up and running in just a month or so. In preparation for their soft open in July, they’ve brought on Wayne Warren to serve as Volunteer Coordinator. If you’re interested in volunteering at […]
As the work on the Old Naval Hospital reaches fever pitch – and it looks as if they will, indeed, make their Summer 2011 deadline – a remarkable change has come over the outside: a new coat of paint. For those of us who have learned that houses on the Hill should generally be left […]
The Hill Center, which broke ground at a ceremony on Sunday, June 13, and is scheduled to open in July 2011 at the site of the Old Naval Hospital at 9th Street and Pennsylvania Ave SE, will be home to a campus-like facility that will offer residents “lifelong learning and cultural enrichment” opportunities, thus giving […]
The Old Naval Hospital at 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, has been falling into disrepair for far too many years, but things are finally about to change. The Old Naval Hospital Foundation is about to begin a major renovation to turn the historic site into the Hill Center, an “educational and cultural institution for […]