order to not go through the cemetery. In 1892, the House of Representatives considered extending North Capitol Street to the Armed Forces Retirement Home. After continued oppositions of German-Americans living in the area, the House of Representatives passed a bill to extend North Capitol Street through the Prospect Hill Cemetery and continuing to the Armed Forces Retirement Home. When fences were put up as part of the street extension, the directors of the Prospect Hill Cemetery tore down the fences. Landowners filed a lawsuit to prevent the condemnation of land between T Street and Florida Street, which was owned by the Balbour family, and to prevent the condemnation of land in Prospect Hill Cemetery. The court examined the will of David Balbour, who had died ten years earlier, over who had inherited the land between T Street and Florida Avenue. The court decided that the District could not simply acquire the cemetery's land through condemnation and that the land could only be purchased based on its worth for cemetery purposes. Congress passed a bill to appropriate money to buy the land from the cemetery, and President Grover Cleveland signed the bill in 1897. Landmarks on North Capitol Street Engine Company 12 Lower Senate Park (at the southern terminus of North Capitol Street, at Louisiana Avenue NW) C-SPAN (400 North Capitol Street) Holodomor Memorial National Postal Museum (at North Capitol Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW) United States Government Publishing Office headquarters (732 North Capitol Street) Gonzaga College High School (at North Capitol Street and K Street NW) NPR (1111 North Capitol Street) Prospect Hill Cemetery (2201 North Capitol Street) McMillan Sand Filtration Site (between Channing Street and Michigan Avenue) Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center (between Michigan Avenue and Irving Street) Armed Forces Retirement Home (between Irving Street and Harewood Road) United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery (between Harewood Road and Allison Street) Rock Creek Cemetery (between Hawaii Avenue and Farragut Place) References Streets in Washington, D.C.