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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CAPHIL_090208_010.JPG: James Carbery House
2. CAPHIL_090208_073.JPG: John Philip Sousa's birth house
3. CAPHIL_090208_078.JPG: John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) author, bandmaster, compose of Stars and Stripes Forever, Washington Post, Semper Fidelis, and other famous marches, was born in this house on November 6, 1854 Capitol Hill Restoration Society 1964
4. CAPHIL_090208_168.JPG: Note the squirrel on the roof. He hopped from rooftop to rooftop which I was watching.
5. CAPHIL_090208_174.JPG: He leaps!
6. CAPHIL_090208_193.JPG: An old horse-rider step
7. CAPHIL_090208_203.JPG: Stop #2: At the Crossroads: Eighth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, SE The large building that wraps around this corner was constructed as a department store in 1892 by Elizabeth A. Haines. She proudly advertised it as "the largest store in the world" that was "built, owned and controlled by a woman." Back then extended families living together typically numbered six to fourteen people, and Haines knew that hundreds of potential customers lived nearby, passing this intersection daily. When the widow Haines arrived in 1882, she and her children lived above a small store nearby on 11th Street. After ten successful years, she commissioned noted local architect Julius G. Germuiller to design this grand department store. Haines's store -- "50 stores in one" -- was the largest enterprise here amid modest family businesses like George J. Beckert's cigar store at 405 Eighth Street. Before Washington's founding in 1791, Pennsylvania Avenue was just a bumpy dirt road connecting the Maryland countryside beyond the Anacostia River to the port of Georgetown, Maryland, on the Potomac. Its stagecoach, cart, and carriage traffic grew with the new capital. Noting this traffic, in 1795, Lewis DeBlois built one of the area's first taverns, located on Pennsylvania Avenue and Ninth Street, where a gas station now sits. When William Tunnicliff took over the tavern, it became known as Tunnicliff 's Tavern. It offered food, lodging, and spirits to travelers and residents here before Tunnicliff moved the business closer to the Capitol and its politicians. The tavern has long since closed, but a business near Eastern Market continues to bear the historic name.
8. CAPHIL_090208_220.JPG: Christ Our Shepherd Church
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Wikipedia Description: Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.
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Capitol Hill, aside from being a metonym for the United States Congress, is the largest historic residential neighborhood in Washington D.C., stretching easterly behind the U.S. Capitol along wide avenues. It is one of the oldest residential communities in Washington, and with roughly 35,000 people in just under two square miles, it is also one of the most densely populated.

As a geographic feature, Capitol Hill rises in the center of the District of Columbia and extends eastward. In the 18th century the hill was called Jenkins Hill or Jenkins Heights by Pierre L'Enfant in 1791 as he began to develop his plan for the new Federal City. He chose to locate the "Congress House" on the crest of the hill, facing the city, a site that L'Enfant characterized as a "pedestal waiting for a superstructure." But it is important to recall that the site of the Capitol is located on a tract of land that had for many years belonged to the Carroll family and was noted in their records of ownership as "New Troy." While it was rumored that a man named Jenkins had once pastured some livestock at the site of the Capitol (and thus his name was associated with the site), artist John Trumbull, who would paint several murals inside the Capitol's rotunda, reported in 1791 that the site was covered with a thick woods. Hence it was unlikely that any livestock had ever grazed there and further Mr. Jenkins must have grazed his cows somewhere else.

The Capitol Hill neighborhood today straddles two quadrants of the city, Southeast and Northeast, and a large portion is now designated as the Capitol Hill historic district. The name Capitol Hill is often used to refer to both the historic district and to the larger neighborhood around it. To the east of Capitol Hill lies the Anacostia River, to the north is the H Street corridor and to the south is the Southeast/Southwest Freeway and the Washington Navy Yard.

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