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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.

Recently Posted Interviews

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.

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.

Naomi Mitchell

After raising her children in Northwest Washington, California native Naomi Mitchell moved to Capitol Hill in 1986, purposely choosing a block with “the haves on one side, the have-nots on the other.”

Jeffry B. Stallsmith, DDS

Jeffry Stallsmith, DDS, had a popular dentistry practice at Sixth and A Streets NE from 1976 to 2013. In 2020, he participated in one of the Overbeck Project's first interviews done via Zoom.

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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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Latest News

Oral histories To Be Featured at CHRS meeting

Overbeck Project Manager Bernadette McMahon and historian Brian Kraft will jointly present “Voices from our past – Researching oral histories of Capitol Hill“ during the June 22, 2021, Capitol Hill Restoration Society meeting.
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