Edge of the Row ,
some of Capitol Hill’s newest developments are America’s oldest Navy and Marine installations.This trail takes you through a modest Capitol Hill community shaped by the presence of the U.S.military.Eighth Street is its commercial center. The Washington Navy Yard anchors the southern end,where Eighth Street meets the Anacostia River.At the northern end, just one block from this marker,is the Old Naval Hospital.Halfway in between is the Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., home of the United States Marine Band and inspiration for a local boy who made good: John Philip Sousa. This spot became an early crossroads because Eighth Street, running north from the Navy Yard, intersected with a road that led from an Anacostia River ferry landing to the site for the Capitol and beyond to Georgetown.That road is today’s Pennsylvania Avenue. At the southeast corner of Seventh and D streets is a private residence that once housed a typical Washington neighborhood corner grocery store. Tucker’s operated from until ,with gro- ceries and hardware sold on the ground floor and the family living above.Across Pennsylvania Avenue to the north is Hine Junior High School, which occupies the former site of the Wallach School.Completed in , the Wallach School was the first designed by German-born architect Adolf Cluss.Cluss would contribute eight elegant schools to the city,including the Franklin and Sumner schools,as well as nearby Eastern Market, where this trail ends. As you walk this trail,you will see a variety of th- and early th-century building styles.They are reminders of the neighborhood’s economically diverse population — laborers,merchants, marines and sailors,and the politically powerful.
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