This version of Preservation Notes introduces some of the people for whom rooms at the Hill Center are named. Frederick Douglass was born enslaved on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He escaped from bondage to become an influential writer and speaker, and had…
This version of Preservation Notes takes a look at how a 150-year-old building goes green. The Old Naval Hospital was built just as scientists were beginning to connect human activity to its effect on the environment. Around the time of the hospital’s 1866 opening…
This version of Preservation Notes takes us to Hill Center’s grounds, restored to their original glory."I have been waiting long for this spring song." -Langston Hughes* The last two years have seemed like a long winter, and there’s no better place…
Dear Friends of Hill Center, We want your recipes! Do you have a family dish that’s everyone’s favorite? Would Thanksgiving be disappointing without Aunt Betty’s sweet potatoes? Do you always cook black-eyed peas for good luck in the New Year?…
This year was...different. January 2020 feels like an entirely alternate universe at this point. With time being kind of a blur, we thought we’d take a look back at what you all helped make possible in 2020. Without your continued…
Conversations about turning the derelict Old Naval Hospital into a new DC Public Library location brought Jennifer Cartland into the Hill Center family and Board of Directors over a decade ago. Now, she is our newly elected Board Vice President,…
Well over a decade ago, Donna Scheeder began her journey with Hill Center. One of the early visionaries who dreamed about how the Old Naval Hospital might thrive as Hill Center, Scheeder was elected President of the Board of Directors…
We stand in solidarity with those protesting for justice, equality and civil rights. Hill Center joins with the families of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in sadness and outrage over their deaths and the deaths of countless others who have been needlessly…
Hill Center, which is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization operated by the Old Naval Hospital Foundation, has an incredible Board of Directors. They work diligently to make sure that Hill Center thrives while preserving the Old Naval Hospital’s historic fabric, keeping the…