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April 14, 2025 · 12:12 am

The Week Ahead & Some Photos from the Past Week

The Week Ahead & Some Photos from the Past Week

by Larry Janezich

Posted April 14, 2025

Sunday morning, Congressional Cemetery sponsored its annual Cherry Blossom 5K.  Some 900 runners participated in the run this year.  All proceeds from the race go to furthering the Association for the Preservation of Historic Congressional Cemetery’s non-profit mission, including environmental preservation.  Here are some post-race photos from where the race started and finished near the center of the cemetery. 

CHC asked Association interim Executive Director, A.J. Orlikoff  to comment on the Cherry Blossom 5K:  “We started doing this race last year for the first time because we just care so much about our environment … it’s just such a core part of our mission to be an urban oasis.  It’s a place for people to come to be a part of nature and to get connected to an outdoor space and really bring back cemeteries to what they used to be – a place for people to gather.  We were overwhelmed by the level of support we had – over 900 runners registered this year.  Last year we had about 500 – so pretty much almost double.  

The Yoshino blossoms have come and are mostly gone, but the Kwanzan cherry trees blossomed to celebrate the spring and framed the roads inside the cemetery. 

Later, on Sunday afternoon, local author, historian and tour guide Robert Pohl led a tour of some of the cemetery’s known and one of its unknown gravesites.  At a stop at J. Edgar Hoover’s grave, Pohl recounted Hoover’s birth in a house near Seward Square on Capitol Hill on the site of what is now Capitol Hill United Methodist Church.  A stained glass window in the church is dedicated to him.  After 11 years in the post, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI in June 1935, where he remained as director for an additional 37 years until his death in May 1972

Nearby is the grave of Hoover’s colleague and protégé Clyde Tolson.  Tolson was the second-ranking official of the FBI from 1930 until 1972.  After Hoover’s death in 1972, Tolson was acting director for a brief period until J. Patrick Gray became acting director.  Tolson retired the following day and was succeeded by Mark Felt – who was later revealed to be the Deep Throat of the Watergate scandal, reportedly after later being passed over for the top FBI job.

Here’s a photo of the grave site of “Mayor Marion “Mayor for Life” Barry’s.

And here’s a photo of the federally-ordered unmarked grave of David Herold in the Herold family plot.  Herold was the accomplice in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln who accompanied John Wilkes Booth on the latter’s 12 day attempt to reach Richmond following the assassination.  Surrounded by federal troops in a Virginia tobacco barn, Herold surrendered, but Booth was killed.  Herold was from a financially well off family who lived in a large house on the east side of what is now Barracks Row, near G Street.  After his execution, the federal government officials released the body to the family for burial with the proviso that his grave would not marked. 

The Week Ahead…

Monday, April 14

ANC6A Transportation & Public Space Committee will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm.

Among items on the draft agenda:

Old business:

  • Lincoln Park Task Force – 6A and 6B drafted a letter to DDOT requesting a traffic study of this area.
  • 14th & A/Ames Streets – ANC 6A sent a letter to DDOT requesting traffic calming on this stretch of 14th Street NE.
  • 500 and 600 blocks of 10/11/12/13th Streets. Issues with speeding cars down the hills on these blocks.  12th & E Streets NE is considered for “future consideration.”

New Business.  

  • 15th & Ames Place NE was part of Q3 prioritization and is under investigation by DDOT.
  • 13th & Linden Streets NE is part of Q3 prioritization and is under investigation by DDOT.
  • Notice of intent:  Installation of Residential Parking Permit zones on 200 and 500 blocks of 15th Street NE.

ANC6B April Parks & Public Spaces Taskforce will hold an in person meeting at 7:00pm. 

This meeting will be held 700 Pennsylvania Ave SE; Second Floor (entry adjacent to Trader Joe’s).

Agenda:  TBA

Wednesday, April 16

ANC6A Economic Development and Zoning Committee meeting will hold a virtual meeting at 7:00pm. 

For info on how to join the meeting, go here:  https://anc6a.org/community-calendar/    

Among items of the draft agenda: 

Old Business:

  • 1355-1359 H Street, NE.  To combine five lots (2 facing H street NE, 3 facing alley) and convert to a retail and eating and drinking establishment use an existing, semi-detached, mixed use building.  Special Exception:  minimum vehicle parking requirements, rear yard requirements, eating and drinking establishment use requirements, and fast food establishment use requirements.  Area Variance:  The floor area ratio requirements.

New Business

  • 917 Constitution Avenue, NE. To construct a second story addition to a detached garage, in the rear of an existing, attached, two-story plus cellar.  Special Exception:  lot occupancy requirements and  accessory building expansion requirements
  • 901 H Street, NE.  Informational presentation for proposed fast casual restaurant.

Capitol Hill Corner would also like you to know about:

Hill Center Event.  Tuesday, April 15.  7:00pm – 9:00pm.  $20.00

  • Global Sounds on the Hill featuring Latin Music Sextet Las Guaracheras.  Las Guaracheras is a powerful Latin Music sextet from Cali, Colombia that performs Afro-Caribbean rhythms such as salsa, as well as music from the Pacific region of Colombia. Their compositions and lyrics revolve around the re-vindication and recognition of the role of women in the music industry – especially in the Latin Music scene in Colombia – and seek to express the power and strength of women as sources of love, hope, resilience and creativity.

Folger Theater Event.  Saturday, April 19.  Starts at 11:00am.  Free. 

  • Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration. Through performance, poetry, song, dance, scholarship, and history, the birthday celebration showcases the breadth of the Folger’s offerings as a cultural organization. The party to celebrate the playwright’s 461st year will kick off when the Folger opens at 11am on Saturday, April 19, and conclude that evening with the annual Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture, given this year by the Folger’s recently appointed director, Dr. Farah Karim-Cooper.

Household Hazardous Waste, E-cycling, & Document Shredding. 

RFK Parking Lot 3 (2400 E. Capitol St. NE).   8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

  • Safely recycle or dispose of household hazardous waste, electronics, and securely shred documents at this twice-quarterly event by Zero Waste DC.  

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