Eastern Market ca 1983
Robert Pohl, local historian, author, and tour guide, presented “Celebrating Eastern Market for 150 Years,” a talk about Eastern Market – the building and its history, at an in-person Preservation Café, March 30, 2023, in the Eastern Market North Hall – operating continuously since it first opened in 1873.
All CHRS members were invited to come and enjoy coffee and cake at the Hill Center’s East Garden on Tuesday, September 13 2022. (more…)
Our summer Membership Meeting (members only) will be on June 22, 2022 at 6:30 pm. As part of the meeting Mike Canning will again offer his popular outdoor walking tour, “Hollywood on the Potomac.” (more…)
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. (more…)
Dessert and coffee party for CHRS members at Hill Center – Wednesday, September 22, 6:30 pm. [photos] (more…)
Bernadette McMahon and Brian Kraft presented “Voices from our past – Researching oral histories of Capitol Hill“ Tuesday, June 22, 2021. (more…)