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Clean Solar Power to Electrify Your Home – Preservation Cafe
Sukrit Mishra, DC Program Director, Solar Neighbors United (SUN) presented "Clean Solar Power to Electrify Your Home" September 26, 2023. The presentation was recorded. Meet with SUN representatives at House Expo. Installing solar panels on our Capitol Hill roofs is...
Guided Walking Tours – Fall 2023
We offered guided outdoor walking tours the weekends of September 16 & 17 and October 7 & 8, 2023. Tour Menu: Building Capitol Hill: a neighborhood's history in just one block -(150+ year history of the architectural, economic and social trends that shaped...
2023 Dick Wolf Lecture – The Collapse and the Opportunity: Cities after COVID
On September 29, 2023, the Society presented the 2023 Dick Wolf Lecture with speaker John Rennie Short, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland Baltimore County. Event Photos After a four-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Dick Wolf Memorial Lecture has...
Meet Hill Rag Editors
Meet the editors of the Hill Rag Tuesday, Sept. 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the lobby of the National Capital Bank (316 Pennsylvania Ave. SE).Editors Andrew Lightman and Elizabeth O’Gorek will be there, waiting to hear from you. They want to open up a dialogue with...
RFK Future – FOKP Website
Friends of Kingman Park (FOKP) has launched a survey and website on RFK's future: www.rfkfuture.org. Please take the survey to register your thoughts on the future of the site.In June 2023, the Friends of Kingman Park (FOKP) civic association met to discuss how to...
Parks: Treasures of Capitol Hill
From L’Enfant’s plans to the 21st century. When Pierre Charles L’Enfant developed his 1791 plan for the City of Washington, he established a network of public spaces, squares, linked by broad avenues. These squares were designated for variety of public functions,...
Art Walk 2023
Local artists and artisans displayed their work in their own micro-galleries, in Capitol Hill home-studios, on porches or in yards. Saturday and Sunday, September 9 - 10, 2023. Co-sponsored by CHRS and the Capitol Hill Art League (CHAL). Free to both artists and...
Eastern HS Landmark Nomination
The Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) unanimously designated Eastern High School as a historic landmark on the DC Inventory of Historic Sites. In early 2022 CHRS was asked by the school principal and a representative of the Capitol Hill Community Foundation to...
Building Capitol Hill – Fall 2023
Building Capitol Hill - a neighborhood's history in just one block. A 150+ year history of the architectural, economic and social trends that shaped our neighborhood. Tour schedule: Sunday, September 17, 1:30 pm. Sunday, October 8, 2 pm.