A Community Exploring Its Past

Tim Temple moved to Capitol Hill in 1963 and immediately began renovating a dilapidated apartment building. He founded and operated Splash car wash near South Capitol Street between 1996 and 2021.

Patricia Joseph has been a resident of Washington and of Capitol Hill since 1980.

Sam Ford and his wife of 41 years, journalist Gloria Murry Ford, bought their house in the 200 block of 12th Street SE in 1982 and Ford has lived there ever since.

Kathleen Donahue’s vision for a retail business on Capitol Hill took shape one summer afternoon as she sat in a traffic jam on the 14th Street Bridge. Why should anyone have to cross the Potomac in search of a game? In November 2010, she opened Labyrinth Games & Puzzles at 645 Pennsylvania Ave SE.