Arming a Navy: The Naval Gun Factory and Its Local Workforce, a virtual Preservation Cafe, was presented by Edward Valentin, a Historian and Curator of the National Museum of the United States Navy, Tuesday, March 15, 2022, 6:30 pm. The talk was recorded.

Dessert and coffee party for CHRS members at Hill Center  – Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 pm. [photos]

Bernadette McMahon and Brian Kraft presented “Voices from our past – Researching oral histories of Capitol Hill“ Tuesday, June 22, 2021.

This event was recorded: Historian  Matthew Gilmore, presented “The Botanic Gardens and the Senate Park Commission: Three Decades of Controversy” Wednesday, March 24, 2021, Synopsis follows.

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.