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Hill Rag | December 01, 2011

One of the major changes to Hill Center during renovations was to replace the whole heating system with a single geothermal system.

WAMU's Metro Connection | October 21, 2011

Hill Center was featured on WAMU's (88.5) "Metro Connection" program.

CityStream | July 13, 2011

Civil War hero Benjamin Drummond was not a quitter. After the African-American sailor sustained gunshots in the shoulder and both legs while aboard the USS Morning Light in 1863, he was captured by Confederate troops. Unfazed, he managed to escape a prisoner of war camp and reenlist in the U.S. Navy. He spent two more years serving in the Civil War. Those gunshot wounds remained untreated until June 1866, when Drummond became the Old Naval Hospital’s first patient.

dcist | April 22, 2011

Perhaps you've walked by the stately building, on Pennsylvania Ave SE right near Eastern Market and wondered what it was. I know I have, often. You've probably also noticed that there has been a lot of work done on the building - a full restoration is in the works. Turns out the building is the Old Naval Hospital, and it houses a long history of medicine in our nation's capital.

Preservation Magazine | April 05, 2011

In 1864, to treat the growing numbers of sailors and marines wounded during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln approved the construction of a Naval Hospital on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. By the time the four-story, brick building was completed two years later, the war was over. But the infirmary gave Civil War veterans and other wounded soldiers a place to recover.