After my post on the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last week, I was contacted…
Tag: Brookland
Up to this point, I’ve talked about Brookland’s northern boundary, Bunker Hill Road; the eastern boundary, Queen’s Chapel Road;…
Robert Ridgway was a man of contradictions. He loved the rural countryside, yet lived most…
It struck me the other day just how lucky we Brooklanders are that Brooks Mansion still…
The Post Office must have hated this in the early days of Brookland. Changing street…
The first two roads I wrote about, Bunker Hill Road to the north and Queen’s Chapel Road to the…
Anyone who has ever walked across a set of railroad tracks and felt the rumbling…
December 30, 1906. Brawner Hetfield, a young CUA student, was just hanging out. Most of…
When Brookland was first laid out in the late 19th century, the planners used some…
