by Ann Kessler Throughout DC are several streets that run only a few blocks at a time. They don’t fit in the grid of numbered and alphabetical street names. They’re […]
Here’s a rare chance to see the ruins of a Forest Hills Civil War defense site
Mel Elfin wrote in the introduction to Forest Hills, a history of the neighborhood published in 2006 by Arcadia Press, “…the most important role of Forest Hills during the Civil […]
More boozy history: Learn about Van Ness/N. Cleveland Park’s wine-making past on a 9/16 walking tour
Did you know that perhaps the most important vineyard in the history of the United States was located on the Springland Farm, centered at Reno/Tilden/Springland Lane? Did you know that […]
Peirce Mill’s apple and pear trees are living heirlooms of our tipsy past
by Marjorie Rachlin Did you know there is an heirloom orchard in Forest Hills? It’s next to Peirce Mill, our restored grist mill on Rock Creek at Beach Drive and […]
New marker at “gate to nowhere” notes 70-year-old scientific achievement
by Glenn Ellmers Long-time readers of the Forest Hills Connection may remember an article from 2015 that opened with an interesting question: “Why is there a curb cut and a […]
It’s a mid-20th century Google Street View, and we get to explore it
Warning: This post took hours to write because we wanted to click all the things. Between 1948 and 1952, a Bureau of Standards statistician named John P. Wymer walked the […]
The Cold War courage behind 3101 Albemarle’s historic landmark
by Marjorie L. Share and Jane M. Solomon On April 27th, DC’s Historic Preservation Review Board unanimously awarded historic landmark status to 3101 Albemarle Street, the stately 1926 Colonial Revival […]
Forest Hills in the Civil War
by Ann Kessler There’s only one sign in Forest Hills that gives any indication of the neighborhood’s past role in Civil War history, and that’s at the Peruvian ambassador’s residence […]
He envisioned Albemarle Street as an ‘attractive’ thoroughfare from AU to Mount Pleasant. It was not to be.
by Ann Kessler A 1913 real estate map of Washington makes it look easy to drive into Rock Creek Park from Connecticut Avenue. Just turn onto Albemarle Street and continue […]
When Forest Hills was a country home for poor and invalid children
by Ann Kessler A 1907 Baist real estate atlas shows very little development in what would become Forest Hills. Sure, there were land owners with acres of land, and some […]