Mildred Allen, who lived in the same block as Christ Church starting in 1931, was known to all church members and neighbors as "Sis".

Tony Ambrosi was born in 1911 and grew up in Schott’s Place, an Italian enclave in the interior of the block where the Dirksen and Hart Senate Office buildings are now located.

Helene Au was born on Capitol Hill and spent almost all of her 105 years living here. She died on May 18, 2019. Miss Au's paternal grandfather settled on Capitol Hill in 1873 when he immigrated from Germany and took a position with the Marine Band.

Almost every Beverly family story involves their house -- the Big House at 308 Independence Avenue SE, on a lot purchased by their grandmother, daughter of former slaves, in 1886.

Bill Boswell’s family lived at 11 D Street SE for 160 years—almost as long as Capitol Hill has been a residential community. As the last Boswell to live there, Bill's interviews cover generations of house, family, and neighborhood history.

A fifth generation Washingtonian on one side of her family and daughter of an Irish immigrant on the other, Ellen Cannon Breen lived from age 2 to 17 on Capitol Hill, from 1920 to the mid-1930s.

Patricia Briel, youngest child in a large family, grew up in a house at 315 First Street SE, later torn down and currently the location of the Capitol South Metro station.

Capitol Hill native Rosetta Brooks has taught ballet to two generations of dancers at St. Mark's Church.

A grocer at Eastern Market since 1963, Chris Calomiris was for years one of the most familiar faces on Capitol Hill. What's less well known is that Chris was a Capitol Hill native.

Leon Calomiris was interviewed by Peter Barker, an American University graduate student researching multi-generational Eastern Market South Hall vendor families.

The family of Francis Campbell, a Capitol Hill native, has been here since the 1920s. He was interviewed when he received the 2013 Community Achievement Award.

Carl Cole was born in Southwest Washington but his ties to Capitol Hill are extensive.

Tony Cuozzo's father was an Italian immigrant who sold fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn cart in the Southeast part of Capitol Hill.

Leah Daniels, founder and owner of gourmet kitchenware store Hills Kitchen, which she opened in 2008, was honored with a joint 2014 Community Achievement Award along with her parents, Maygene and Steve Daniels.

Vincent DiFrancesco was born at home in 1916 at 137 B Street SE, also his father's shoe repair shop. His 2013 interview is full of stories of the immediate neighborhood.

Ray Donohoe was born at old Providence Hospital and spent his early years at 159 Kentucky Avenue where the exploits of the six Donohoe boys often brought visits from the police whenever mischief occurred.

Randy Edwards was born and raised on Capitol Hill, but his ties to the neighborhood through subsequent years revolve around his long-time membership in the (Masonic) Naval Lodge on Pennsylvania Avenue SE. 

For forty-one years, as a labor of love, Jim Finley ran a no-frills boxing gym on the second floor of his auto repair shop on Tenth Street NE. 

John Ford, born on Capitol Hill in 1924, grew up in a large family at 328 Ninth Street SE and lived and worked most of his life on Capitol Hill. 

Cynde Tiches Foster's father bought Jimmy T's Place at Fifth and East Capitol Streets SE in 1969, so she began working there while in high school. She and John, a regular customer, met at the restaurant in the early 80s and married in 1991. 

Isaac Fulwood, Jr. served Washington, DC, as Police Chief from 1989 to 1992, but long before that, his character was formed by the neighborhood near Kentucky Avenue SE that fostered a sense of community during his childhood. 

Walter Graham grew up in the 1200 block of G Street SE from the 1920s to 1940s. In this interview with Ida Prosky, he remembers details of life on Capitol Hill before and during World War II. 

One of five children, Josephine Green was born near the Navy Yard in 1931. After working at the General Accounting Office and the Geological Survey, she bought her own home near D and 11th Streets NE in the 1970s.

Marie Guy remembers many details of growing up during the 1930s and 40s behind the Sansalone family grocery store, now the site of the Rayburn House Office Building.

Sidney Hais was born at home in 1914 above his father’s market at Seventh and C NE and remained active on the Hill until the 1980s when he ended his real estate investment activities in the neighborhood. 

When Rosetta Hall Hamm was born, her family was living near South Capitol and D Streets SE. They later moved to E Street SE, so Rosetta has spent almost her entire life on the Hill.

Carol Mills Harris recalls Capitol Hill as her childhood home from 1933-1944, when all the Mall and the cultural events there were her classroom and playground.

Dorothy Owens Hawkins was born in 1915 in her grandparents' home at 513 E Street SE, across Marion Park from the police station, an appropriate location for her grandfather who spent 40 years as a DC police officer. 

At the time of this 2001 interview, Eva and Walter Haynes still lived in the house on South Carolina Avenue purchased by her parents in 1949. 

Ann Higgins moved to Burke Street SE as a three year old and stayed until she was a high school student, then returned as an adult after many years in the suburbs. 

June Hoffmann’s parents were married at St. Peter’s on Capitol Hill in 1911 and subsequently raised their 10 children on the Hill and in Congress Heights. 

George Hutchinson spent his childhood in the Stanton Park area where he lived until just after World War II. 

Margaret Hutchison spent most of her early life in Georgetown, but she lived in the Stanton Park neighborhood as a young woman in the mid 1920s and again as a mother in the late 30s and early 40s. 

Mel Inman, Sr. was interviewed by the Overbeck Project in 2009, so Peter Barker interviewed his son, Mel Inman, Jr., in October 2010, for a study of multi-generational Eastern Market vendor families. 

Born in Virginia, Mary Jerrell moved to Capitol Hill at age five in 1920. In this interview, Mary describes the comings and goings of her neighbors in the 800 block of East Capitol Street where she lived for almost 80 years. 

Steve Johnson’s pictures are likely to be found in the family albums of countless Capitol Hill families, possibly balancing two or three children on his shoulders at once during his more than 40 years teaching Chinese gymnastics at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW).

Tom Kelly grew up near Stanton Park in the 1920s and 30s and later, with his wife Marguerite, raised four children in the same block where he lived as a child.

When John and Elsie Leukhardt were interviewed in 1974, Elsie reminisced about having had the same phone number -- updated as the system changed -- for 70 years.

Like her sister Josephine Shore, Rose Lovelace grew up on H Street SE, near Congressional Cemetery, "just after the war" --World War I, that is. 

Goldie Mamakos was born on the Hill in 1930 at a house where her family and other Greek relatives lived. 

Jack Mann's great-great-grandfather opened a brewery and beer garden on Capitol Hill in the late 1850s. It was located at 14th and D Street SE, later the site of the Safeway. 

Geraldine Matthews was born on Capitol Hill in 1923 and has spent her entire life here. 

Shortly after Jeff Menick was born in July 1947, his family moved to the corner store at 601 E Street SE, which his father operated. The family lived in quarters behind and above the store.

Nancy Metzger’s interest in Capitol Hill historic preservation began in childhood, when she questioned her mother about their church’s decision to remove houses in order to build an annex. 

John Miller was born on Capitol Hill before World War I and lived most of his life in Southeast. The Navy Yard expansion took over the house where he was born.

Cornelia "Connie" Mitchell, a lifelong Washington resident, remembers seeing presidential inaugural parades as far back as Woodrow Wilson’s. 

Larry Monaco's early childhood was spent on Capitol Hill, as both his mother's and father's had been, so this interview is filled with reminiscences of family life in both the northeast and southeast parts of the neighborhood. 

Oley Morgan was born in 1917 and grew up on Capitol Hill. From the age of 12, his primary interest was boxing, at the Knights of Columbus, then the Merrick Boys Club, the Police Boys Club, and eventually for the Marine Corps.

Nellie May Sweet Morton, born in 1897, was interviewed by Ruth Ann Perez and Hazel Kreinheder in 1974. 

Freda Herrmann Murray, about 81 years old at the time of her interview, was born to German parents who operated a grocery, funeral home, and made bottled root beer and ginger ale.

When Beth Eck interviewed Mary Donohoe Murray in 2003, she learned about a close extended family. 

Virginia Myers was born in 1924 in Manassas, VA, but moved to Capitol Hill at age five. 

When Jerre Ness spent his childhood and school years on Capitol Hill, he attended local schools and delivered newspapers to homes since replaced by the Dirksen and Hart Senate Office buildings. 

Jean Noel’s parents met in DC in 1914 and married in 1915. Jean was born at 511 F Street NE and lived in several other houses in that neighborhood until her marriage after World War II.

When Lane Parsons watched the houses at 1623 - 31 G Street SE being built during his childhood in the 1920s, the basements were dug out using horse-drawn plows, and laborers removed the dirt using baskets. 

Alexander Pope, Jr. was born in 1925 to parents who ran a funeral business in the Southeast part of Capitol Hill; the business, now operated by his son Alex Pope III, celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2020.

Dr. Herbert Ramsey, Eastern High School Class of 1912, was interviewed in 1977 by Hazel Kreinheder. 

Dr. Clarence Rice, a 1912 graduate of "old" Eastern High School, later served as an Army doctor in World War I.

Gina Sangster came to Capitol Hill as a child in the early 1960s. In her interview, done via the Zoom app, she describes how her parents, Libby and Gilbert Sangster, started the business that became Antiques on the Hill.

Norman Schroth was born in 1905 and raised at 702 Maryland Avenue NE. He later moved to 404 Seventh Street NE. 

Walter (Wally) Schwartz's father was resident manager of the Plaza Hotel, and later the Carroll Arms Hotel, and Walter grew up sharing an apartment in the hotels with his parents, eating most meals in the hotel restaurant. .

Josephine Shore was born at home, 1612 H Street SE, in 1919 and spent her next 21 years there. 

Milton Sladen was born in 1900 near Second and C Streets SE. At the time of this interview, he lived at 120 11th Street SE, in a house occupied by his family for 67 years.

Frances Slaughter joined Wee Care in the mid-1980s and became the beloved “Miss Frances” to two generations of neighborhood pre-schoolers. 

Larry Smith recreates the Capitol Hill neighborhood in which he grew up during and after World War II, when boys played baseball in the alleys and football on teams at the Merrick Boys Club. 

Brother and sister Elias and Mariana Souri grew up with their parents and paternal grandparents on Lincoln Park, in the house where they still resided at the time of the interview in 2002.

Mary Lou Dempf Stott grew up at 13 Fourth Street NE, a home that had belonged to her family since 1896. 

Frank Taylor was born at home in the 300 block of First Street NE in 1903 and moved with his family in 1909 to 909 Massachusetts Avenue NE. 

Nancy Metzger interviewed Frank Taylor four times in 1999, and John Franzén met with him again in 2003 when he discovered a connection he had with Frank's Uncle Ernest Kübel.

Dorothy Taylor's family lived at 116 11th Street SE for 66 years, from 1903 when her father had it built until she sold it in 1969.

Lloyd Thompson grew up in the 1300 block of East Capitol Street after his family was displaced in the mid-1950s by what he calls "urban removal" in Southwest Washington. 

From 1903 until 1935, Norman Tucker's grandfather, Thomas Tucker, owned and operated, with his brother William, Tucker Brothers Fine Groceries, a corner market at 701 D Street SE. Norman's grandfather's family lived behind the store. 

Albert S. Turner was born in Southeast Washington in 1928 and spent most of his childhood at 1210 G Street SE, attending local schools.

Ron Tutt's first home was 624 B Street NE (now Constitution Avenue) and he spent much of his life with his paternal grandmother who ran rooming houses.

Born Margaret Fleming in 1920, Margaret Wadsworth was raised in her family’s home in the 500 block of Eighth Street SE and at other addresses on Capitol Hill. 

Retired Rear Admiral Charles Loring Waite spent his early years on Capitol Hill and in Southwest Washington before the Depression. 

Julie Walker lived most of her life in the 600 block of C Street NE moving to the southeast quadrant shortly before this 2003 Interview.

Florine Walker Walther was born and raised at 420 B Street NE (later Constitution Ave NE). She was the daughter of Samuel Walker, a 19th century builder, investor, and briefly the police chief. 

Dr. Ben Williamowsky, now a retired dentist, came to Capitol Hill as a teenager in 1939 when his father Chaim Williamowsky became Rabbi of the Southeast Hebrew Congregation at 417 Ninth Street SE.

Shirley Womack grew up on Heckman Street SE, which was renamed Duddington Place when the restoration movement began on Capitol Hill. 

The houses where Esther Woodfolk and her siblings grew up were torn down when the Southeast-Southwest Freeway was built, but she remembers her Depression-era neighborhood well. 

Esther Yost was born on Capitol Hill in 1938 and lived here until she married in 1960; her parents remained in their house at 529 11th Street SE until 1990.