by Marlene Berlin I walked by Nail Avenue, Italian Pizza Kitchen, and Diplomat Cleaners one night last week and thought there was something different about this corner of Connecticut Avenue […]
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It’s been exactly 37 years since Van Ness got its own Metro station
by Ann Kessler December 5, 1981 was an historic day in the Forest Hills neighborhood. It marked the opening of the Van Ness-UDC Metro station as well as the Woodley […]
The defector, the Van Ness visionary, the goose attacker and more people of the past
Until Ann Kessler wrote about then-Congressman and Senator Lyndon Johnson’s home on 30th Place, we had no idea his family had lived here. And they truly lived here. The image […]
The first lady of Forest Hills: When Lady Bird Johnson was a Murch mom
by Ann Kessler Around this time 75 years ago, Forest Hills got new neighbors: a congressman and his wife. That congressman would go on to serve in the Senate, then […]
Grant Road: The historic country lane in DC’s modern street grid
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 […]
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 […]
Petition: Keep DC’s vast historical collection available during MLK Library renovation
by Marlene Berlin When the Martin Luther King Library closes next year for a multiyear renovation, a key historical resource will also close. The DC Public Library is to provide […]
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