September Membership Meeting
The next CHRS Membership Meeting will be held Thursday, September 11, 2025, at Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital (921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE). Details coming soon.
Member will vote to approve the annual budget.
Hilloween 2025
On Friday, October 31. form 4:30-6:30 pm, CHRS will host a children’s activity table at Hilloween, an annual free street party outside of Eastern Market. We’ll have beads to string, CHRS trick-or-treat bags, and other goodies. It’s great fun to meet with our neighbors and share our mission. Come join us!
Art Walk 2025 – Event
Local artists and artisans will display their work in their own micro-galleries, in home-studios, on porches or in yards. Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14, 2025 from noon- 4 pm. Most will have work for sale. Presented by the Capitol Hill Art League (CHAL) and co-sponsored by the Hill Rag, Hill Center and CHRS. Free to both artists and visitors. See details and a list of confirmed artists; a map will be published in September.
The 80 Year Struggle to Build National Guard Armory – Overbeck Lecture
How the vacant land between East Capitol Street and Independence Avenue west of the Anacostia River became a center of civic and military activity is a history worth telling. Jack Jones, historic preservation specialist at the DC Historic Preservation Office, will do just that at the Capitol Hill History Lecture, Monday, May 19, 2025, 7 pm, at Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue SE. (more…)
CHRS Supports Progressive Development at RFK Campus Site
Contact: Angie Schmidt (202) 714-4502
Washington, DC, Feb. 17, 2025 – The Capitol Hill Restoration Society (CHRS) today issued a statement of support for progressive development at the RFK Campus site.
“CHRS is in alignment with the important District goals in the 2021 Comprehensive Plan and earlier studies which have been long championed by Mayor Muriel Bowser and other civic leaders,” Angie Schmidt, president of CHRS, said.
CHRS supports using the land for athletic and recreational use, she said, as well as including affordable housing, commercial and residential projects, continued public access to the Anacostia River Trail, and no development within 60 feet of the shoreline and wetlands next to the Anacostia River.
But, she said, “The residents of Ward 7 and the Kingman Park Historic District have a much more vested interest in how the campus is developed. CHRS intends to be a good neighbor and support their wishes.”
The CHRS statement of support for progressive development can be found here: https://chrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CHRS_RFK_statement_02-2025.pdf
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“Broken City” – Does Upzoning Produce More Affordable Housing? – Committee of 100
“Broken City– Does Upzoning Produce More Affordable Housing?” a conversation presented by the Committee of 100 will take place at 6:30 pm, Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at United Church of Christ 945 G St. NW. (more…)