Capitol Hill
— — the city that goes home behind the dome.
Not only on a wall.
“The blocks east of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., where the marble of the federal city gives way to brick rowhouses, painted shutters, and small front gardens. Eastern Market still trades on Saturdays. The Library of Congress sits a few blocks one way, Lincoln Park a few blocks the other. The grid keeps the trees, and the trees keep the scale. A working neighbourhood that happens to share a hill with the Senate. from the studio
Capitol Hill, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Capitol Hill is the residential neighbourhood that surrounds the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., extending roughly from the Mall on the west to the Anacostia River on the east. The Capitol itself sits at 88 feet above the Potomac, the highest natural rise in the original L'Enfant plan of 1791. Around 35,000 people live in the surrounding historic district, which is one of the largest in the country and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The Capitol dome itself is cast iron painted to read as stone, completed in 1866 under engineer Thomas U. Walter. The rowhouses that surround it are mostly brick, mostly Italianate or Federal in style, and mostly built between the Civil War and the First World War. Eastern Market, the brick Italianate market hall on 7th Street S.E., has operated continuously since 1873 and remains the working civic centre of the neighbourhood. Together the buildings give the Hill its distinctive nineteenth-century cohesion.
Capitol South, Eastern Market, and Union Station Metro stations serve the neighbourhood. Free timed-entry tours of the Capitol run through the Visitor Center on First Street; the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court sit immediately east of the building. Eastern Market's outdoor flea and farmers' market runs Saturday and Sunday year-round. Lincoln Park, eight blocks east of the Capitol along East Capitol Street, anchors the residential end of the neighbourhood and is open daylight hours.