The presentation from the recent Capitol Hill Town Square meeting contains this heartbreaking nugget:

Left: Wallach School, 1864-1950. Right: Hine Junior High School, 1966-present.

The building at the left is the Wallach School, built in 1864 at the northwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 8th Street, SE. It was torn down in 1950. On the same site now sits the building on the right, the Hine Junior High School, which is now slated for redevelopment.

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.