This series contains legislative bills, reports, awards, and questionnaires. These materials cover the dates 1955-89. The CHRS has many temporary committees and task forces that are formed to respond to a particular project or issue. This series relays the work of several of these task forces Examples include the Barney Circle Steering Committee, the Prison Task Force, and the Traffic Management Task Force.

This series contains articles, correspondence, reports, and environmental impact statements. This material dates from 1981-97. The series has two subject divisions including background material and freeway modification reports. The series includes many of the reports written by the DC Department of Transportation and other groups such as the National Capital Planning Commission. The Barney Circle Freeway Modification Project was a proposed link between Interstate 395 and Interstate 295. The goal was to provide drivers, specifically targeting commuters, with a way to cross the city without using local streets. The project encountered a lot of neighborhood opposition and construction never began.

This series includes both completed directories and those within various stages of production. The material covers the dates 1968-92.

This series contains meeting materials, correspondence, resolutions, studies, articles of incorporation, newsletters, technical reports, engineering reports, survey, by-laws, and testimony. These materials date from 1971-91. The series contains material related to the Community Development Corporation, Development Study and Technical Report, Eastern Market Planning Committee, Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation (EMPDC). Much of the material within the series deals with renovation issues, has material that deals with the District government, and gives a good sense of the city's work regarding the Market. The material related to the EMPDC is a good set of records for that organization from 1988-91 and includes documents such as correspondence, meeting minutes, and budget.

Eastern Market located at 7th St. and North Carolina Avenue is the only publicly-owned fresh-food market in Washington D.C. The Market's South Hall was built in 1873 and the North Hall followed in 1907. The Market is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1987, the Eastern Market Preservation Development Corporation formed to implement a restoration plan created by the Eastern Market Neighborhood Commission organized by the DC government. Unfortunately, the DC Historic Preservation Office deemed the plan inappropriate and very little preservation work has been completed. Currently the city and the Eastern Market management groups are engaged in litigation to determine who controls the property.

This series contains newsletters, bills and receipts, budget material, and publications. This materiel dates from 1958-70. This small collection relates to Peter Glickert's work with several organizations such as the Capitol Hill Community Council, City Planning Committee, Federation of Citizens Associations, and the Capitol Hill Southeast Citizens' Association. The series is divided between these various organizations and topics such as traffic and Capitol Hill renovation.

Peter Glickert moved to Washington D.C. in 1951. Following his move to his Capitol Hill home on 11th Street in 1958, he discovered that his house was slated for demolition as part of the construction project involving the Anacostia Freeway. He successfully fought and saved his house. Glickert is an example of a very active resident of Capitol Hill.

The series contains photographs of various houses and properties in Capitol Hill.

This series contains notes, articles, testimony, interviews, property surveys, and flyers. The material dates from 1973-96. The series includes material about the following topics churches, historic district committee, historic preservation, Eastern Market, Ellen Wilson Dwelling, historic research, legal documents, and Schauer historic district committee, when Pat Schauer was Chair.

The Historic District Committee monitors the exterior design of proposed new construction, building alterations, and demolitions from the standpoint of compatibility with the architectural character of the Capitol Hill Historic District. "Monitors" form the Committee, meet with staff architectural historians at the D.C. Historic Preservation Office to review the proposals, and comment on the proposals before the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB). The Committee also assists concerned community members with making and following up on complaints of construction or demolition being done without proper permits and HPRB review. In addition, the Committee periodically prepares and presents testimony before the D.C. City Council and the HPRB on relevant proposed legislation and regulations.

This series contains articles of incorporation, by-laws, booklets, legislative bills, reports, articles and writings, and scrapbook. This material covers the years 1949-89. This series serves as a catch all for materials that relate to different aspects of CHRS. Some of the files deal with the history of the organization such as those related to the Society's archives while other materials relate to work the CHRS did for a particular project such as the government expansion of the Hine School. This series appears to have been created to serve as a repository for materials that did not otherwise have a home in the collection.

This series contains newspaper articles, correspondence, an oral history, photographs, telephone directory, programs, by-laws, and minutes. This material covers the years 1900-95. The series has material related to the Capitol Hill neighborhood including a good early history of several prominent residents in 'Only a Few of the Many Fine Historic Places and People on Old Capitol Hill, Southeast" written in 1953 by Elizabeth Draper and the records from the Southeast Citizens' Association and the Washington Housing Authority. There is a program for the National Capital Centennial from 1900 and material about the Old Marine Hospital. The series does not have much material about the Yost or Leukhardt families, but does have historical material about the Capitol Hill neighborhood and about the purchase of the Yost House by the CHRS.

William Henry Yost built his house at 1002 Pennsylvania Ave. in 1894. The house passed to his daughter Elsie and she lived there with her husband John C. Leukhardt until they sold the house to the Capitol Hill Restoration Society in 1979. The Yost House became the headquarters for CHRS.

This series contains organizational records, meeting documentation, correspondence, brochure, by-laws, contracts, and testimony. This material dates from 1964-81. As with the Peter Glickert series, this series is an example of the personal papers of a very active citizen. This series has material for many neighborhood organizations that Mr. New worked with including the Capitol East Coalition for Housing, the Capitol East Community Crime Council, the Capitol Hill Community Council, the H. St. Project Area Committee, the Near Northeast Community Improvement Corporation, and the Public Interest Civic Association of Northeast Washington.

This series contains meeting records, plans, membership data, correspondence, tour booklets, press releases, testimony, budget material, and working files. These materials date from 1955-98. From 1955 through 1974 the records are scarce, but after 1974 the records become much more detailed. This series contains material related to the tenure of individual presidents. Many of the subjects are repeated for different presidents such as traffic, crime, membership, and the renovations of various buildings in the neighborhood.