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1945 - 1970
Mary Ellen Abrecht
Mary Ellen Abrecht, a retired D.C. Superior Court judge, moved to Washington in the turbulent 1960s and joined the Metropolitan Police Department.
Gary Abrecht
Gary Abrecht’s interview spans the years 1967 to 2000 and is a warm and poignant recollection of over 30 years working in law enforcement in Washington, DC.
Mildred "Sis" Allen
Mildred Allen, who lived in the same block as Christ Church starting in 1931, was known to all church members and neighbors as "Sis".
Sonda Allen
In this 2009 interview, Colleen Cruikshank talks with Sonda Allen, a gold and silversmith who has sold her own jewelry at Eastern Market since the early 1990s under the trade name Turtle's Webb.
Maureen Shea and Kenn Allen
Maureen Shea and Kenn Allen are active volunteers, involved parishioners of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, and Capitol Hill residents for nearly 50 years. In 2023 they received a Capitol Hill Community Foundation Achievement Award for their dedication to the community.
Sharon Ambrose
Former DC Council member Sharon Ambrose, a Chicago native, was born to political life, accompanying her grandfather in door- to-door campaigning during the 1950s.
Tony Ambrosi
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.
Donnald Anderson
Donnald Anderson's years on Capitol Hill predate his professional career—he began as a Capitol page during high school and graduated from the Capitol Page School.
Ernest Antignani
Ernest Antignani came to Washington in the mid-1950s to attend Georgetown University's Foreign Service school.
Melissa Ashabranner
When Melissa met Hill Rag founder Jean-Keith Fagon, the paper was well established. She joined him and used her MBA skills to manage the business and keep it profitable.
Helen Atkins
Helen Atkins, who celebrated her 100th birthday on Valentine's Day 2008, arrived in Washington with her widowed father during World War I. She moved to Capitol Hill after her 1935 marriage and remained until recent years.
Helene Au
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.
Pearl and Joel Bailes
Joel Bailes plays the piano and the fiddle and Pearl the harmonica with the Capitol Hillbillies, the performing group they founded in 1983. Even if you don’t recognize their names, you probably have enjoyed their music on the Hill.
Frances Barnes
Frances Barnes's family stretches back generations in Washington, DC; so far that she isn't exactly sure when they first arrived.
Georgiana Barnes
Georgiana Barnes married and moved to Capitol Hill, or Southeast Washington as it was called then, on Christmas Day 1933.
Linda Barnes
Linda Barnes moved to Washington as a young bride in 1963, and had lived on East Capitol Street for 35 years when she was interviewed in 2002.
Pauline Bates
Pauline Bates was born in Alexandria, VA, in 1913, and spent 63 years of her adult life on Capitol Hill, at 506 Seventh Street SE.
Grover Batts
Grover Batts came to Washington in 1951, after serving in World War II, and went to work at the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, a position he kept until retirement.
Lola Beaver
Lola Beaver's life on Capitol Hill revolved around her Costume Shop at Eighth and A Streets NE, which she opened in 1968, not long after the riots.
Michael Berman
Michael Berman, an artist and Capitol Hill resident, started selling his work at Eastern Market in 1992, when newcomers had to get in line early to get a spot among the Saturday outdoor vendors.
Robert J. Beverly, Sr., and family
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.
Lora Stirling Birch
Roberta Blanchard
Roberta Blanchard opened Fairy Godmother book and toy store on Seventh Street SE in 1984. it's still in operation at the same location over three decades later. Prior to that, she'd had children and became involved in the neighborhood.
William Boswell
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.
Ellen Breen
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.
Bruce Brennan
When asked how he got ‘sucked into’ one of the volunteer tasks he performed during his years on Capitol Hill, Bruce Brennan answered, “I like to be a helper.” Stories about his activities, as told during the interview, support that statement.
Patricia Briel
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.
Anne Brockett
Anne Brockett, an architectural historian with the DC Historic Preservation Office, discusses the rehabilitation of Eastern Market in this June 2009, interview with Beth Hannold.
Rosetta Brooks
Capitol Hill native Rosetta Brooks has taught ballet to two generations of dancers at St. Mark's Church.
Patty Brosmer
Now President of the Capitol Hill Business Improvement District, Patty Brosmer has been a part of the BID movement since helping to develop the necessary legislation from 1995-1999.
Dudley Brown
A widely respected expert in historic restoration, Dudley Brown had long family connections to Capitol Hill, including his grandmother who ran a boarding house.
Sah Brown
Sah Brown served as the dynamic principal of Capitol Hill’s Eastern High School for six years. In this interview, he describes his nontraditional route to a career in education and talks about Eastern’s distinguished history, vibrant present, and supportive community.
Chuck Burger
In 2009, Chuck Burger discussed his history as an owner of a store across from Eastern Market in the 1980s.
Chuck Burger
In 2010, Chuck Burger received a Community Achievement Award and was interviewed by Stephanie Deutsch in preparation for that.
Chris Calomiris
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.
Maria Calomiris
Maria Calomiris worked alongside her husband Chris and later their sons at the Calomiris Fruits & Vegetables produce business in Eastern Market's South Hall, starting in the early 1960s.
Leon Calomiris
Leon Calomiris was interviewed by Peter Barker, an American University graduate student researching multi-generational Eastern Market South Hall vendor families.
Francis Campbell
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.
Emilio Canales
Emilio Canales didn’t know much about meat in 1992, when he bought the Eastern Market South Hall business that became Canales Quality Meats.
Jose Canales
Jose Canales was seeking the American Dream when he left El Salvador. In 1983, he became a South Hall vendor at Eastern Market. His 2009 interview is part of the Project's special focus on the Market.
Mike and Judy Canning
Judy and Mike Canning, winners of the 2009 Community Achievement Award, were interviewed by Stephanie Deutsch in preparation for that event.
Helen Carey
Helen Carey "backed into" the real esate business when she assisted a friend with the renovation of Georgetown alley dwellings and later managed their rental.
Bryan Cassidy
Bryan Cassidy arrived in Washington from Ireland in the mid-1960s, newly wed and seeking employment as an architect.
Sig Cohen
After Sig Cohen moved to Capitol Hill in 1986, his contributions to the neighborhood have included founding the Hill Havurah Jewish Community and participating in the Capitol Hill Group Ministry.
Carl Cole
Carl Cole was born in Southwest Washington but his ties to Capitol Hill are extensive.
Mary Colston
Mary Colston lived in the same two-story rowhouse in the 500 block of Second Street NE from 1947 until 2002.
Patrick Coyne
Patrick Coyne jokingly says he's still teaching five year olds to play soccer 25 years after starting that volunteer coaching task because he "need[s] kids to yell at" and his own don't listen any more.
Paul Cromwell
Paul Cromwell was awarded a CommunityAchievement Award in 2015, based primarily on his contributions to youth and women's soccer teams and the Capitol Hill Restoration Society.
Sally Carlson Crowell
Sally Carlson Crowell, founder of Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, turned her passion for the arts into her livelihood and created a now venerable neighborhood institution.
Patrick Crowley
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.
Tony Cuozzo
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.
Steve and Nicky Cymrot
In this 2010 interview, Steve Cymrot says "The Hebrew word for charity is the same as the word for justice," which helps explain Steve's and his wife Nicky's amazing history of service to Capitol Hill for over 40 years.
Nicky Cymrot, RE Hill Center
In 2000, neighbors organized to seek a suitable use for Capitol Hill's delapidated Old Naval Hospital. This interview is an oral record of the 11 year effort that resulted in its conversion to Hill Center.
Leah Daniels
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.
Steve and Maygene Daniels
Steve and Maygene Daniels moved to Capitol Hill as newlyweds in 1972. They raised their children, Eddie and Leah, in the community, quickly becoming involved in schools and community organizations.
Lawrence and Claire Davis
Claire and Larry Davis, Capitol Hill residents since 1969, bought their house for its garden and made extensive use of it through the years.
Don Denton
This interview with longtime Hill realtor Don Denton conducted by former ANC 6B chair Ken Jarboe focuses on the 2002 creation of the Capitol Hill Business Improvement District (BID). Both Denton and Jarboe were instrumental in the effort that led to the successful establishment of the BID.
Vincent DiFrancesco
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.
George Didden, Jr.
George Didden, Jr., had been a member of the Board of National Capital Bank for 50 years when Ruth Ann Overbeck interviewed him in 1990.
Dan Donahue
Dan Donahue's first experience as a vendor outside Eastern Market was selling bulbs for the Capitol Hill Garden Club. Next he sold plants that he raised on a rooftop in Southwest.
Raymond Donohoe
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.
Eleanor Drabo
Since 1991, artist and college history professor Eleanor Drabo has sold jewelry under the name Drabo Gallery at Eastern Market's weekend outdoor operation.
Patricia Taffe Driscoll
In 1960, Pat Taffe Driscoll and her husband Bill moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where they and their three sons had close-up views of a challenging period in the country's history.
Bill Driscoll
Bill Driscoll grew up in New York City but has spent almost all of his adult life on Capitol Hill.
Ralph Dwan
Ralph Dwan was a Catholic priest working for the Washington archdiocese when he first came to the Hill in the mid-1960s.
Karin Edgett
Karin Edgett developed a 2006 branding campaign for Eastern Market and created indoor and outdoor graphic signage that enlivened the temporary market structure after the 2007 fire.
Randy Edwards
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.
Monte Edwards
When the 1999 Eastern Market legislation mandated creation of the Eastern Market Community Advisory Committee, the Stanton Park Neighborhood Association chose Monte Edwards as its representative.
Harold Engle
As a World War II veteran attending graduate school, Harold Engle enjoyed walking the shady streets of Capitol Hill while doing research at the Library of Congress.
Peter Eveleth
Capitol Hill resident Peter Eveleth decided in 1974 that DC's brand new system of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions sounded "very interesting," so he ran for commissioner of ANC 6B06 and was elected.
James C. Finley
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 Harrison (Harry) Ford
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.
John and Cynde Foster
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.
David Fowler
David Fowler's family has farmed and sold produce at Eastern Market since 1873, and before that at the city's Center Market. They were at the market the Saturday after the 2007 fire, not missing a week.
Greg Frane
Greg Frane was one of four men awarded the Capitol Hill Community Foundation's Spark Award in 2016.Through more than 30 years, Greg's roles evolved as did that of SOTH, now known as Sports on the Hill.
Adiante Franszoon
In this April 2009, interview, Adiante Franszoon told Vera Oye’ Yaa-Anna about his 18 years as a vendor at Eastern Market.
John Franzén
John Franzén lived on Capitol Hill for "more than two decades before getting involved in the neighborhood." He more than made up for that over the next two decades as he became a vital contributor to Hill organizations.
Isaac Fulwood, Jr.
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.
Brian Furness
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.
Larry Gallo
After moving to Capitol Hill in 1974 as a government worker, Larry Gallo interned with a silversmith and began exhibiting his own hand-crafted jewelry among the Arts and Crafts vendors at Eastern Market in 1992.
Dorothy Garris
Dorothy Garris’s life on Capitol Hill involves her family, her teaching career, and the New United Baptist Church, founded by her late husband, the Reverend Grant Garris.
Pauline Getek
Pauline Getek grew up on a farm near Fredericksburg, VA, and attended a one room school. She worked in the Alexandria Torpedo Factory during World War II, when the product being made was torpedos, not art.
Bill Glasgow
Bill Glasgow, owner of Union Meat Company in Eastern Market's South Hall, is a member of one of the longest active vendor families -- his father and uncle started the company in 1946.
Bill Glasgow
In this interview, Bill Glasgow elaborates on his assessment of the "turning points for Eastern Market" throughout its history.
Bette and Peter Glickert
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.
Ken Golding
At the time of this interview, Ken Golding was president of Market Row Association, representing the interests of merchants and owners of the "bricks and mortar" businesses surrounding Eastern Market.
Hal Gordon
Working through Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian's Church, Hal Gordon and his wife Janice founded the Community Action Group to "[address] the social ills that were retarding the personal development and struggle of poor people."
Walter Graham
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.
Luis Granados
Luis Granados began volunteering with Sports on the Hill in 1994 when his son was six years old.
Josephine Green
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.
Neal and Janice Gregory
Neal Gregory arrived in DC in 1963, and in 1970 Janice Maxwell came to work for Texas Congressman Jake Pickle. They met when Neal came to Pickle's office to interview him, and they married the next year.
William Griffiths
William (Bill) Griffiths was instrumental in helping his friend John Harrod begin Eastern Market’s Saturday morning craft markets in 1980. In 2004 they teamed to sponsor the weekly tango lessons in the Market’s North Hall that continue to this day.
Emily Guthrie
Emily Guthrie, who became executive director of the Capitol Hill Group Ministry in 2002, has noted that its membership has expanded beyond Christian churches and is now truly interfaith.
Marie Sansalone Guy
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.
Clifford Hackett
Cliff Hackett and his wife arrived in Washington in 1964 looking for housing for their family of six children; they'd already decided to live in the city and not commute.
Sidney M. Hais
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.
Stephen Hall
From his first visit to Washington as a child in 1944, (Joseph) Stephen Hall found the city a “ great wonderment.” In these two interviews, Dr. Hall recounts his years in the area since 1958.
Rosetta Hall Hamm
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 Harris
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.
Charles Harris and Mary Freeman
Siblings Charles Harris and Mary Winifred "Winnie" Harris Freeman were born and grew up in a house on Ninth Street SE that had been in their family for nearly 100 years at the time of their August 2005, interview with Mary Ann Wyrsch.
Mary Ellen Abrecht
Mary Ellen Abrecht, a retired D.C. Superior Court judge, moved to Washington in the turbulent 1960s and joined the Metropolitan Police Department.
Gary Abrecht
Gary Abrecht’s interview spans the years 1967 to 2000 and is a warm and poignant recollection of over 30 years working in law enforcement in Washington, DC.
Donnald Anderson
Donnald Anderson's years on Capitol Hill predate his professional career—he began as a Capitol page during high school and graduated from the Capitol Page School.
Ernest Antignani
Ernest Antignani came to Washington in the mid-1950s to attend Georgetown University's Foreign Service school.
Frances Barnes
Frances Barnes's family stretches back generations in Washington, DC; so far that she isn't exactly sure when they first arrived.
Linda Barnes
Linda Barnes moved to Washington as a young bride in 1963, and had lived on East Capitol Street for 35 years when she was interviewed in 2002.
Pauline Bates
Pauline Bates was born in Alexandria, VA, in 1913, and spent 63 years of her adult life on Capitol Hill, at 506 Seventh Street SE.
Grover Batts
Grover Batts came to Washington in 1951, after serving in World War II, and went to work at the manuscript division of the Library of Congress, a position he kept until retirement.
Rosetta Brooks
Capitol Hill native Rosetta Brooks has taught ballet to two generations of dancers at St. Mark's Church.
Dudley Brown
A widely respected expert in historic restoration, Dudley Brown had long family connections to Capitol Hill, including his grandmother who ran a boarding house.
Maria Calomiris
Maria Calomiris worked alongside her husband Chris and later their sons at the Calomiris Fruits & Vegetables produce business in Eastern Market's South Hall, starting in the early 1960s.
Francis Campbell
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.
Mike and Judy Canning
Judy and Mike Canning, winners of the 2009 Community Achievement Award, were interviewed by Stephanie Deutsch in preparation for that event.
Helen Carey
Helen Carey "backed into" the real esate business when she assisted a friend with the renovation of Georgetown alley dwellings and later managed their rental.
Bryan Cassidy
Bryan Cassidy arrived in Washington from Ireland in the mid-1960s, newly wed and seeking employment as an architect.
Carl Cole
Carl Cole was born in Southwest Washington but his ties to Capitol Hill are extensive.
Mary Colston
Mary Colston lived in the same two-story rowhouse in the 500 block of Second Street NE from 1947 until 2002.
Steve and Nicky Cymrot
In this 2010 interview, Steve Cymrot says "The Hebrew word for charity is the same as the word for justice," which helps explain Steve's and his wife Nicky's amazing history of service to Capitol Hill for over 40 years.
Patricia Taffe Driscoll
In 1960, Pat Taffe Driscoll and her husband Bill moved to the Capitol Hill neighborhood, where they and their three sons had close-up views of a challenging period in the country's history.
Bill Driscoll
Bill Driscoll grew up in New York City but has spent almost all of his adult life on Capitol Hill.
Ralph Dwan
Ralph Dwan was a Catholic priest working for the Washington archdiocese when he first came to the Hill in the mid-1960s.
Harold Engle
As a World War II veteran attending graduate school, Harold Engle enjoyed walking the shady streets of Capitol Hill while doing research at the Library of Congress.
James C. Finley
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.
Isaac Fulwood, Jr.
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.
Dorothy Garris
Dorothy Garris’s life on Capitol Hill involves her family, her teaching career, and the New United Baptist Church, founded by her late husband, the Reverend Grant Garris.
Pauline Getek
Pauline Getek grew up on a farm near Fredericksburg, VA, and attended a one room school. She worked in the Alexandria Torpedo Factory during World War II, when the product being made was torpedos, not art.
Bill Glasgow
Bill Glasgow, owner of Union Meat Company in Eastern Market's South Hall, is a member of one of the longest active vendor families -- his father and uncle started the company in 1946.
Bill Glasgow
In this interview, Bill Glasgow elaborates on his assessment of the "turning points for Eastern Market" throughout its history.
Bette and Peter Glickert
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.
Clifford Hackett
Cliff Hackett and his wife arrived in Washington in 1964 looking for housing for their family of six children; they'd already decided to live in the city and not commute.
Stephen Hall
From his first visit to Washington as a child in 1944, (Joseph) Stephen Hall found the city a “ great wonderment.” In these two interviews, Dr. Hall recounts his years in the area since 1958.
Eva Haynes
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.
Barbara Held Reich
Barbara Held Reich was a realtor on Capitol Hill starting in the late 1950s.
Marie Hertzberg
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.
John Hogan
John Hogan, the first president of Capitol Hill Day School's Board of Trustees, and Ida Prosky talk at length about the school's founding during this interview.
Inez Jones
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.
Joan Keenan
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.
Margot Kelly
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.
Marguerite Kelly
Marguerite Kelly and her husband Tom moved to Capitol Hill in 1953 to help care for his aging parents, and she remains here to this day. Her interview's vividly told stories focus on the early years of child rearing and community activism.
Leonard Kirsten
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.
Gladys Kraft
Gladys Salpeter Kraft supervised many of the programs at Friendship House from 1946 to 1950 and later served on the Board until 1968.
Hazel Kreinheder
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.
Geoffrey Lewis
Geoff Lewis's life on Capitol Hill followed familiar patterns: moving to Washington after college (in 1965), finding work, marrying his wife Terry, buying a house, and raising two daughters.
Stuart Long
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.
Janice MacKinnon
Janice MacKinnon left her Hollywood, CA, hometown for DC in the 1960s to work for a California congressman, and in 1969 moved to Capitol Hill with her husband David.
Madonna McCullers
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
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.
Keith Melder
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.
Jeffrey Menick
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
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.
Larry Monaco
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.
Helene Monberg
Helene Monberg was a journalist in Washington for over 60 years.
Annie Bell Nelson
Annie Bell Nelson and her husband Joseph purchased their house in the 600 block of South Carolina Avenue SE in 1948.
Maureen Nolan
Soon after Maureen Nolan came to the United States from County Clare, Ireland, in the early 1960s, she moved to Washington and settled on Capitol Hill.
John Overbeck
John Overbeck arrived in Washington in 1957 for a job at the Library of Congress
Charlene Patton
Charlene Patton lived at 1230 North Carolina Avenue NE for over 40 years, starting in 1980—but she'd first lived on the Hill more than 20 years prior.
Peter Powers
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.
Evelyn Price
Evelyn Price moved from southern Virginia to Washington, DC, in 1942, and met her husband here.
Ida Prosky
Ida Prosky moved to Capitol Hill in 1960 with her husband, actor Bob Prosky, to be near Arena Stage Theater in Southwest, where Bob was a member of the resident company.
Tom Rall
Since the late 1960s, Tom Rall has been part of the Capitol Hill community, and those times "shaped the remainder of [his] life," as he states in this May 2009 interview.
Curtis C. Robinson
Curtis “Doc” Robinson served as a Tuskegee Airman in World War II and returned after the war to Washington, DC.
Anwar Saleem
Anwar Saleem was a teenager when the 1968 riots devastated the thriving and diverse commercial and social hub of H Street NE.
Gina Sangster
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.
Karl Frederic Schwengel
Karl Frederic Schwengel bought his house on 11th Street SE in 1969, selecting Capitol Hill mostly because houses were less expensive than in Georgetown.
Seafarers Yacht Club
The Seafarers Yacht Club is believed to be the oldest active African American yacht club in the United States.
Walter Sheehan
Born in the Bronx in 1929 to Irish immigrant parents, Walter Sheehan attended Catholic schools there and in Colorado before moving to Washington in the 1950s to attend Georgetown University.
Bea Shelton
Bea (Beatrice) Shelton first became involved in the Lutheran Curch of the Reformation on East Capitol Street in 1945.
Duncan Spencer
Duncan Spencer moved to his first home on Capitol Hill in 1965 and has lived in the same East Capitol Street house since 1970.
Lloyd Thompson
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.
Ron Tutt
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.
Alice Van Brakle
Alice Van Brakle moved to Capitol Hill in 1944 and to her home on Fifth Street SE in 1948.
Peter Waldron
Long-time Capitol Hill resident Peter Waldron had been writing for the Hill Rag for about two years when Eastern Market burned in 2007.
Julie Walker
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.
Shirley Womack
Shirley Womack grew up on Heckman Street SE, which was renamed Duddington Place when the restoration movement began on Capitol Hill.
Henry Wrona
Henry Wrona moved from his native Rhode Island to work in Washington after World War II. By 1959, he worked for the Senate and lived nearby at the John Adams House on Maryland Avenue NE.
Clarence Zens
In this interview, Clarence (Clancy) Zens, a writer and editor by trade, relates how he crashed his Navy fighter plane into an Indiana farm at the end of World War II.