Georgetown Time Machine: N Street in Oil Paints

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, I’m returning to another charming painting from the neighborhood. It comes from the DC Historical Society. It’s from 1954 and it’s by John Bryans. The title, as you can see, says that it’s of Wisconsin Ave. and N St.

It took me a minute or so to figure out what buildings this could possibly be, but I believe it’s of the back of the two buildings on the northwest corner of that intersection:

The windows of the now gray building match up with the yellow building in the painting. And the roof lines also match. The first floor extension that now exists clearly doesn’t match the shed-style extension from the painting, but that was probably changed over the years.

Most notably, the painting does not have the Georgetown Inn building. That makes sense since it wasn’t constructed until 1962.

I think I like the yellow better. They ought to bring it back!