[3] The newspaper's definition would include the neighborhoods of Fairfax Village, Good Hope, Naylor Gardens, and Randle Highlands in "Hillcrest".

[4] Born in 1859, Colonel Arthur E. Randle, was a late nineteenth and early twentieth-century real estate developer, who earned some recognition for building the Congress Heights neighborhood, before developing Hillcrest and other areas, east of the Anacostia River.

Moving his family into a large, Greek Revival house - later nicknamed "The Southeast White House" - in what is, now, the Randle Highlands, Randle encouraged more Washingtonians to follow and build grand homes, along Pennsylvania Avenue.

The aesthetics and quality of the structures are generally excellent, equal to those of the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Cleveland Park.

[6] Two Mayors of the District of Columbia, Marion Barry and Vincent C. Gray, have lived in Hillcrest.