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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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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Lecture Series

Paul Philippe Cret's original design for the Folger Shakespeare Library

Overbeck Lectures to Return on September 16, 2019

Lecture By :
Michael Witmore.
September 16, 2019
On Monday September 16, Folger Library Director Michael Witmore will present a lecture on the history and pre-history of the 300 block of East Capitol Street, SE, where the Library is located.
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Overbeck Project notes with sadness the passing of two interviewees

During May 2019, the Overbeck Project and Capitol Hill lost two valued friends.
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