by Marlene Berlin Where would you get your neighborhood news without the Forest Hills Connection? Where would you learn the latest on the Saul Centers project on Connecticut Avenue, how Pepco is working (or not) to bring power to our homes, and get the first word of new businesses opening on Connecticut Avenue (Mark Furstenberg’s […]
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Forest Hills’ First School
by Ann Kessler I would suspect if you were asked about the first public school to be built in Forest Hills, you wouldn’t answer that it was an African American school or that it was built here in 1866. But that is true, and here’s the story of that long forgotten school. If you look […]
The Streetcars Of Forest Hills
by Anne Rollins For decades after the federal government moved to the District of Columbia in 1800, the city grew very slowly, with only sparse settlement outside the area designed by L’Enfant. Beyond Boundary Street, now Florida Avenue, steep hills and the ravine of Rock Creek formed natural barriers to convenient access to what was […]
Before Forest Hills, There Was Azadia
by Ann Kessler I was puzzled when I first read that the Forest Hills Citizens Association was almost named the Azadia Citizens Association back in 1930 when it was founded. Azadia was not a word I had ever heard — just Google it and find out how rare it is. Nonetheless, the word Azadia has […]
Forest Hills History: The Children’s Country Home
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 roads and streets had been cut through or were marked to be built, but few actual buildings or houses were shown. One prominent building that […]
How Our Playground Was Born
by Ann Kessler (Part 2 of 2; see the first post, about Mrs. Wright’s efforts to build and improve our neighborhood schools here.) Establishing a playground and providing recreational facilities for the children of Forest Hills was a constant concern of Mrs. Leslie Boudinot Flenner Wright, a neighborhood activist from the 1920s through the 1950s. […]
How Our Schools Were Born: Mrs. Leslie B. Wright
by Ann Kessler (Part 1 of 2) Among the early leaders of the Forest Hills neighborhood was a remarkable woman named Mrs. Leslie Boudinot Flenner Wright. She called herself “more or less a feminist” as she fought for the building of Murch Elementary School (and Deal and Wilson), was the only woman officer among the […]
Forest Hills Connection Contributors
Frequent Contributors David Bardin and his wife, Livia, lived on Military Road for 19 years before buying their Connecticut Avenue condo in 1997. He served as ANC 3F Commissioner (1999-2004), as a member of the board of DC Water (2001-2011), and as NJ’s second Commissioner of Environmental Protection (1974-77). He first moved to DC in […]
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