GARFIELD PARK
Garfield Park
Garfield Park has been a Capital Landmark since 1791. It is also were we used to play basketball under the bridge.We still use the park today for horseshoe pitching every Friday in the summer time. It is also were we have our annual Arther Capper Reunion Cookout on the 4th of JULY. There you will see any and everybody that grew up in Cappers.
Joe's Store/3rd and K Market
Joe's Store/3rd and K Market
Joe's Store or 3rd and K Market was one of the Icon at Arthur Cappers. It was the store everyone frequent when they did not go to the Safeway. At night it was a place were all the singers in the neighborhood would meet up and do-whoop until the late night,early morning. I used to live across the street from the store,and my bedroom window was facing the store. I used to here Leon Lilly,John Lilly,Lorenzo Ross,Sunny Clark,my next door neighbor Derek to name a few. It was a very busy part of the neighborhood in the summertime. During the early 70's the store was owned by Mr. Goodman,Then Joe Reid took over after the riots. Then came Oriental Joe who took over after Joe Reid. Today the store is there.
Sherman Mills
Saint Paul AUMP Church
Saint Paul AUMP Church
Located at 401 I Street SE, Saint Paul African Union Methodist Protestant Church is one of the few surviving buildings from the predominantly African-American community that developed in the industrial area between Capitol Hill and the Washington Navy Yard. Saint Paul’s construction in 1924 reflects a significant period in the history of this working class community, which survived large-scale demolition and rebuilding in the 1950s before potentially being dispersed by massive redevelopment in the early twenty-first century. The church meets Criterion A because it is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad pattern of Washington, DC’s history.
Saint Paul was designed by R.C. Archer, who became Washington’s second African-American licensed architect. Archer’s long career was most distinguished for his church designs. Saint Paul was both his first important commission and his first church design in Washington.
Saint Paul is also significant as an outstanding example of a particular type of African-American house of worship. It was constructed as both the home of a newly-formed working class congregation and the first church of its denomination in the city. Saint Paul’s modest scale reflects the circumstances of its creation and its surrounding neighborhood, while its stylish façade reflects the pride of its congregation in their house of worship. Saint Paul retains this original façade with high degree of intactness and is the most intact church building of its type and era erected by an African-American congregation in the southeast quadrant west of the Anacostia River. It meets Criterion C because it exemplifies the distinctive characteristics of its era and building type as a house of worship for a modestly-sized, smaller denomination, working-class African-American congregation of the 1920s.
STAR BUILDING
STARBUILDING
The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record. On August 7, 1981, after 130 years, the Washington Star ceased publication and filed for bankruptcy. In the bankruptcy sale, The Washington Post purchased the land and buildings owned by the Star, including its printing presses. It also was a place for most of Arthur Capper's youth received their first job. Most where newspaper couriers and delivers as well as Jumpers.
Arthur Capper Swimming Pool at Van Ness
Arthur Capper Swimming Pool at Van Ness
Leron Goodrun
this pool made me swimming all American in DC and at Tennessee state univ. it was right next door to 1101 we had it good in the hood.thank you Jesus for showing me the way. — at 1101 .
FROM: Leron Goodrum
Chain Basket Ball Court
Chain Basket Ball Court
The Chain Basket Ball Court was a court that was in the alley between K st and L st . The court was small but was very big in when it came to play basketball. Everybody came to play on the Chain Court. Even though we had other basketball court that was also in the neighborhood. There was Cappers Rec Court,Garfield Park Court,but the Chain Court was the court. There were games played day and night even when there were no lights.There even a player who played on the Chain Court who played at Georgetown,and then went on to play in the NBA. His name was Michael Graham..After the Chain Court was made into a parking lot. Everybody utilize the other courts in the neighborhood. The Chain Court was were almost everybody learned how to play basketball...
Description from: Sherman Mills
The Friendship House
The Friendship House
Friendship House (also known as The Maples, Maple Square, or Duncanson House) is a Georgian townhouse, located at 619 D Street, (630 South Carolina Avenue), Southeast, Washington, D.C., in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.The Friendship House Association, founded in 1904, purchased the house in 1936, and operated a settlement house, and community center there.[As the Capitol Hill neighborhood gentrified. Arthur Capper community was part of this community center. There were arts and crafts,summer jobs,trips and many activities for youths to participate in.
It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 18, 1973. The property was sold in 2010, to a private developer.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_House_%28Washington,_D.C.%29
ARTHUR CAPPER RECREATION CENTER
ARTHUR CAPPER RECREATION CENTER
CAPPER'S RECREATION CENTER was located at 5th and K street South East DC. It was operated by Ann Cooke, Mr. Kelsey, Marvin Groove, Hooks,Mickey, just to name a few. It was well known for its girls and boys sports teams,(Football,Baseball,and Basketball ). It was very competitive growing up in the Capper's Community. Cappers won countless Championships in all sports.
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<p>Descriptlion from: Sherman Mills</p>
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
The Washington Navy Yard is the former shipyard and ordnance plant of the United States Navy in Southeast Washington, D.C. It is the oldest shore establishment of the U.S. Navy.
The Yard currently serves as a ceremonial and administrative center for the U.S. Navy, home to the Chief of Naval Operations, and is headquarters for the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Historical Center, the Department of Naval History, the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps, Naval Reactors, Marine Corps Institute, the United States Navy Band, and other more classified facilities.The land was purchased under an Act of Congress on July 23, 1799. The Washington Navy Yard was established on October 2, 1799, the date the property was transferred to the Navy. It is the oldest shore establishment of the U.S. Navy. The Yard was built under the direction of Benjamin Stoddert, the first Secretary of the Navy, under the supervision of the Yard's first commandant, Commodore Thomas Tingey, who served in that capacity for 29 years.
The original boundaries that were established in 1800, along 9th and M Street SE, are still marked by a white brick wall that surrounds the Yard on the north and east sides. The next year, two additional lots were purchased. The north wall of the Yard was built in 1809 along with a guardhouse, now known as the Latrobe Gate. After the Burning of Washington in 1814, Tingey recommended that the height of the eastern wall be increased to ten feet (3 m) because of the fire and subsequent looting.
The southern boundary of the Yard was formed by the Anacostia River (then called the "Eastern Branch" of the Potomac River). The west side was undeveloped marsh. The land located along the Anacostia was added to by landfill over the years as it became necessary to increase the size of the Yard.
From its first years, the Washington Navy Yard became the navy's largest shipbuilding and shipfitting facility, with 22 vessels constructed there, ranging from small 70-foot (21 m) gunboats to the 246-foot (75 m) steam frigate USS Minnesota. The USS Constitution came to the Yard in 1812 to refit and prepare for combat action.
Photos and Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard
Fuller's Barbershop
Fuller's Barbershop
Fuller's Barber Shop owned and operated by Luther Fuller. Fuller's shop has been serving the Arthur Cappers neighborhood for over 45 years and still remains open as of today at 1100 L St S.E.
Photos and Info from Sherman Mills