Wednesday, December 16, 2020, two District Department of Transportation (DDOT) planning officials discussed the planning and environmental process on Capitol Hill, with a focus on  the DDOT’s planning and implementation of its transportation corridor revitalization projects on Pennsylvania  and Maryland Avenue. Handouts available for those who missed the presentation.

This lecture, originally scheduled for Friday, March 27, 2020, will not take place as planned. Information on rescheduling will be posted as it becomes available.

History buff Matthew Gilmore gave a talk entitled “Making Washington’s “Swampoodle”: Irish Neighborhood in the Tiber Valley, Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 7 pm,  at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE.

Andrew Trueblood, the new director of DC’s Office of Planning, will be the featured speaker for a Community Forum on Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE.

On Friday, March 29, 2019 at 7 pm, John Hillegass, winner of the 2019 Dick Wolf Prize, presented a lecture on the decision to dismantle the Washington DC streetcar system in favor of buses. 

Architectural historian Pamela Scott, one of the authors of “Creating Capitol Hill, Place, Proprietors, and People” will discuss Capitol Hill’s early development with an emphasis on the roles played by the artisans and architect/builders who resided here on the Hill. Wednesday, September 26, 2018, at 7 p.m. at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 

Brian Kraft presented “Mapping Early Washington”, on June 28, 2018.

The 2018 Dick Wolf Lecture “New Discoveries at the Shotgun House Archaeology Project” was presented at Hill Center on Friday, March 23, 2018.