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Events DC meetings Plans for RFK Campus
Events DC will hold another round of meetings in April on plans for RFK campus. Monday, April 3, 2017 | 7:00 pm: Rosedale Citizens Alliance Monthly Meeting Location: Rosedale Community Center, 1701 Gales St NE Monday, April 10, 2017 | 7:00 pm: 6th District Citizens...
Events DC meetings — Plans for RFK Campus
Events DC will hold another round of meetings in April on plans for RFK campus. Monday, April 3, 2017 | 7:00 pm: Rosedale Citizens Alliance Monthly Meeting Location: Rosedale Community Center, 1701 Gales St NE Monday, April 10, 2017 | 7:00 pm: 6th District Citizens...
Events DC Meetings – Plans for RFK Campus
Events DC will hold another round of meetings in April on plans for RFK campus. Monday, April 3, 2017 | 7:00 pm: Rosedale Citizens Alliance Monthly Meeting Location: Rosedale Community Center, 1701 Gales St NE Monday, April 10, 2017 | 7:00 pm: 6th District Citizens...
Village Voices – Overbooked
On Tuesday, April 24, 2017, 7-8 p.m. at the NE Branch Library, 330 7th St. NE. Hear Elisabeth Becker, an award-winning journalist, discuss the exploding business of travel and tourism and its global impact. The Glamour and Dark Underbelly of Travel and Tourism. The...
Village Voices – Whistleblowing
On Monday, May 8, 2017, 7-8 p.m. at the NE Branch Library, 330 7th St. NE. Richard Rashke, author of "Snowden, Silkwood and Their Quest for the Truth" will discuss the role of whistleblowers. Whistleblowing: Moral Dilemma, Personal Sacrifice The Whistleblower’s...
High-Kelvin LED Streetlights
DDOT is proposing to install blue-white LEDs in streetlights, which many believe to be harsh or even harmful, and has already begun installing these LEDs. CHRS Testimony before City Council 5/4/2017Historically, Washington's street lights have been a warm white...
2017 Dick Wolf Lecture – Adapting to Sea Level Rise
Kelsey Robertson, winner of the 2017 Dick Wolf Prize, presented Historic Districts & Climate Change: examining the vulnerability of the District's historic districts to sea level rise, Friday, March 24, 2017, 7 p.m., at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave...
2017 Dick Wolf Lecture Photos
Photos courtesy Andrew Lightman
Spring 2017 Membership Meeting
The spring Membership Meeting of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society will be held immediately preceding the Dick Wolf Lecture, Friday, March 24, 2017, 6:45 p.m. at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE. The Election Committee will be announced and nominations for...
Antique or Modern – Preservation Cafe
Is that transom over your door a 1890s treasure or a 1980s addition? Can't tell your cast iron from your mild steel? And what color did people paint their houses in the 1920s, anyway? The March 15, 2017 Preservation Café featured local architectural conservator and...