This is the Capitol Hill Seventh Day Adventist church, located about a half block from our house. I had posted a similar picture of it in winter but have always been curious about it – thinking it looked like it might have been a synagogue, although my neighbor thought it had once been an Eastern Orthodox church -- so Sunday I spent literally hours trying to uncover its history.

I learned it had been built in 1910 (which was a year off) from the DC government’s History Quest site, found its tax records at Property Quest, and searched the DC Recorder of Deeds to see who it had belonged to over the years. Although the deeds only went back to 1974, which is very odd since their records date from 1924, I came to the conclusion that it was built as a Christian church, the Ingram Memorial Church, in 1909 and has remained a church ever since, although not always in use.

Tim on South Korean TV, posted earlier: