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A Community Exploring Its Past

The Overbeck Project preserves and publicizes the history of the Capitol Hill community by recording the recollections of its longtime residents, presenting history lectures and promoting historical research.

Featured Interviews

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.

Anwar Saleem

Anwar Saleem was a teenager when the 1968 riots devastated the thriving and diverse commercial and social hub of H Street NE.

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.

Alex Pope, Jr.

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

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Lecture Series

View of the perimeter of Stanton Park in 1927. NPS (NCR Division of Lands, Resources and Planning, Reservation File 15)

Parks for the People - How Capitol Hill Parks Led to a National Park Service

Lecture By :
Vincent Vaise
POSTPONED. Every park tells a story. Among the landmarks of Capitol Hill perhaps none are as appreciated as Capitol Hill’s parks - some of the first public lands in the nation.
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In Memoriam: John Franzén

The Overbeck Project notes with sadness the passing of Steering Committee chairman and visionary leader John Franzén on November 1, 2020. Franzén’s recorded interviews with historian Ruth Ann Overbeck prior to her death in 2000 provided the inspiration for this oral history project.
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