Ernest Antignani came to Washington in the mid-1950s to attend Georgetown University's Foreign Service school.

A widely respected expert in historic restoration, Dudley Brown had long family connections to Capitol Hill, including his grandmother who ran a boarding house.

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

Patrick Crowley saw the deplorable condition of Congressional Cemetery while walking his Saint Bernard in the 1990s. He joined other dog-walkers to create a volunteer effort to improve the grounds.

Brian Furness was interviewed by Mary Weirich in May 2005, just before he and his wife moved from Capitol Hill to New Orleans. By that time, he had been a Capitol Hill resident for over 35 years, in between State Department foreign postings. 

When Bette and Peter Glickert married in 1959, they bought the end house of Philadelphia Row. At the time, the house, now a familiar beauty, had been condemned.

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. 

Barbara Held Reich was a realtor on Capitol Hill starting in the late 1950s. 

Only a few people get to be involved with inventing a new genre, but Bob Herrema’s mid-1980s “adaptive reuse” of the former Logan School into condominiums heralded the start of a new approach to renovating older buildings on Capitol Hill. 

Marie Hertzberg and her husband bought their first home on Carroll Street SE in the 1950s, but it wasn't long before Congress took over the street in order to build the Madison building of the Library of Congress. 

Inez and John Jones moved to Capitol Hill in 1959, when John worked for Senator Neuberger. Soon Mrs. Jones founded Congressional Realty and ran it from her Massachusetts Avenue NE home until the mid-1970s. 

Kitty Kaupp arrived on Capitol Hill in 1975 and was awarded a Community Achievement award in 1998, the year of this interview.

Joan and Frank Keenan were among the first wave of young people who came to Capitol Hill in the 1950s to renovate an old house and raise a family. 

Hugh Kelly was a Capitol Hill realtor beginning in the early 1970s. In this interview, he describes his efforts to interest people in the neighborhood at a time when it was considered a place to live for those who couldn’t afford more desirable locations. 

Margot Kelly moved to Capitol Hill in the 1960s because she couldn't find the house she wanted in Northwest. She became involved in rehabilitation of neglected buildings, but unlike most she quickly focused on Eighth Street SE commercial buildings. 

Len Kirsten owned and operated the Emporium, a gift shop in the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, from 1965 to 1975. He carried an eclectic array of traditional items plus up-to-the-minute hip things, aimed at the new folks who were moving to the Hill at the time. 

Hazel Kreinheder and her husband Bob purchased a house on Kentucky Avenue just off Lincoln Park in early 1963. They are still living in that same house in 2020.

Stuart Long is best known as the co-founder of the Hawk and Dove restaurant and bar in the 300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE, started in 1967 and named for that period's prevailing political factions.

Madonna McCullers moved to the Hill in 1950, where she balanced keeping house for her family with opening and operating her own beauty shop on Massachusetts Avenue.

Ronald McGregor and his family moved to Capitol Hill in 1968 after his retirement from the Navy, settling in the 700 block of Massachusetts Avenue NE and becoming active in the Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, the Restoration Society and the Garden Club. 

During the 1960s, Keith Melder was active in the Capitol Hill Community Council, a racially integrated civic organization attempting to supplant the predecessor segregated organizations that previously dominated civic life in D.C.

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. 

Peter Powers, a Capitol Hill resident from the late 1960s until his death in 2006, played a prominent role in the early days of the neighborhood renovation era, including a stint as president of the Capitol Hill Restoration Society. 

Frank Reed talks about his role as a founder of Stanton Development, the company behind the reconstruction of the Kresge's and Penn Theater buildings in the 600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue SE.