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Mentions of Stadium-Armory in the Evening Star, October 31 – November 6, 1926. Searched for "Congressional Cemetery", "District jail", "Gallinger Hospital", "East Capitol street".

Clips are machine-read text (OCR) from scanned Evening Star pages on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America, lightly cleaned (line-break hyphens rejoined, stray symbols removed); misspellings are the scanner's. Newspapers this old are public domain. Each clip links to its page at loc.gov. Clips that mention race, covenants, deed restrictions or slurs are skipped automatically (keyword list: race, races, racial, colored, coloured, negro, negroes, white only, whites only, for whites, white people, white persons, white residents, caucasian, segregation, segregated, covenant, covenants, restricted, restriction, restrictions, plus a list of slurs), because they need an editor's context; legal notices and lists of private individuals are skipped too.

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  D.C. Stadium · 07/29/1963 [29 July 1963][Exterior of the D.C. stadium (Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium) with cars in parking lot] / MST.
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  Gate of the Congressional Cemetery · 1943 MayWashington, D. C. Flower vendors at the gate of the Congressional Cemetery on Memorial Day
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  Congressional Cemetery · 1944 SpringWashington, D.C. Monuments in the Congressional cemetery
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  Congressional Cemetery · 1944 SpringWashington, D.C. Monuments in the Congressional cemetery
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  Washington Asylum Hospital · 1915 March 16Wash. Asylum Hospital, [Washington, D.C.], Mch. 16, 1915
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  District of Columbia Jail · [between 1913 and 1918][District of Columbia Jail]
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  District Jail · [between 1910 and 1920]District Jail, [Washington, D.C.]

Photographs from the Library of Congress (U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection; Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection; National Photo Company Collection; Harris & Ewing photograph collection), each with no known restrictions on publication or in the public domain, per the Library. Titles are the Library's, written when the photos were catalogued; some use the language of their time. Each links to its record.

Congressional Cemetery1807

Officially the Washington Parish Burial Ground, owned by Christ Church and established April 4, 1807, at 1801 E Street SE. It became a National Historic Landmark in 2011. Volunteers, including dog walkers, took on its upkeep from the 1990s.

Earlier: Washington Parish Burial GroundSources: Congressional Cemetery - Wikipedia · Patrick Crowley oral history (Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project)

D.C. Armory1941

Built in 1941 for the District of Columbia National Guard, which still controls the parts set aside for it; Events DC runs nonmilitary use. It stands on East Capitol Street next to the stadium.

Sources: D.C. Armory - Wikipedia · Hill East - Wikipedia

D.C. General Hospital1922 (Gallinger)

Honors: Senator Jacob Harold Gallinger (its 1922 name)

The site at 19th Street and Massachusetts Avenue SE began in the 1840s as the Washington Asylum Hospital, a combined hospital, poorhouse and workhouse. It was renamed Gallinger Municipal Hospital in 1922, later became D.C. General, and closed in 2001.

Earlier: Washington Asylum Hospital, Gallinger Municipal HospitalSource: D.C. General Hospital - Wikipedia

Ethel Kennedy Bridge2008

Honors: Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy

The Benning Road crossing of the Anacostia, near the stadium named for her husband. Wikipedia gives 2008 for the renaming and May 20, 2014, for the official ceremony.

Earlier: Benning Road BridgeSource: Benning Road - Wikipedia

Kingman Island

Honors: Dan Christie Kingman, head of the Army Corps of Engineers

Built from material the Corps dredged from the Anacostia, beginning around 1920, out of what had been mudflats. It lies east of the stadium campus and is now part of Kingman and Heritage Island Park.

Sources: Kingman and Heritage Islands - Wikipedia · Benning Road - Wikipedia

RFK Stadium1969

Honors: Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Opened as District of Columbia Stadium. The Armory Board's plan to rename it for John F. Kennedy after 1963 faltered. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall announced the current name on January 18, 1969, seven months after Robert Kennedy was killed.

Earlier: District of Columbia StadiumSource: Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium - Wikipedia

Stadium-Armory1977 (station)

Less a neighborhood than a campus name, from the stadium and armory on East Capitol Street and the Metro station that opened beside them on July 1, 1977. Wikipedia counts this ground as part of Hill East; the DC Health planning map treats it as its own area.

Sources: Stadium-Armory station - Wikipedia · Hill East - Wikipedia

Whitney Young Memorial Bridge1974

Honors: Whitney Young, civil rights leader and National Urban League director

Carries East Capitol Street across the Anacostia and Kingman Lake. Finished in 1955 as the East Capitol Street Bridge, it was renamed in early 1974, though some sources say 1973.

Earlier: East Capitol Street BridgeSource: Whitney Young Memorial Bridge - Wikipedia

Still looking for a reliable source on 19th Street SE, 20th Street SE, 22nd Street NE. We don't publish a name's story until we can cite one. Know it? Tell us.

• Patrick CrowleyPatrick Crowley · 2012 · transcript · remembers the 1990s, 2000s

  Crowley saw the poor condition of Congressional Cemetery while walking his Saint Bernard in the 1990s and helped start the volunteer effort among dog walkers to improve the grounds, then joined its board. He describes the cemetery's history, geography and preservation.

  At Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project · Congressional Cemetery, dog walkers, preservation
• Clarence Rice, M.D.Clarence Rice · 1977 · transcript · remembers the 1900s, 1910s

  Interviewed specifically about Congressional Cemetery, Rice, an Eastern High graduate of 1912 and later a pathologist, ranged wider: crossing the Anacostia as a boy, band concerts, trolley rides, and medical facilities including Gallinger Hospital.

  At Ruth Ann Overbeck Capitol Hill History Project · Congressional Cemetery, Gallinger Hospital, Eastern Branch, medicine

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• DC Historic Preservation Office, Historic Data on DC Buildings (HistoryQuest), CC BY 4.0
• Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), Chronicling America, Library of Congress; public domain

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