The Georgetown Metropolitan

1100 block of 33rd St.

A big cookie is coming to town. Literally. They’re huge.

Levain Bakery is opening in the former Johnny Rockets space at 3131 M St. The name might not be familiar to you. It opened in 1995 and only has a handful of locations in and around New York City. And the name also might make you think it’s a bakery in the normal we-sell-bread so of way. It’s not that.

What it is is a shop that sells cookies. Giant cookies. Not quite as large as that jumbo pizza-sized cookie above, but still way larger than you really ought to be eating.

The cookies weigh in at 6 ounces, which is almost half a pound. Granted, jumbo cookies are hardly that rare these days, but rarely are they this voluminous:

That’s like a friggin scone. Anyway, the tourists will love em.

Photo by Thomas Hawk.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• How CM Brooke Pinto disagrees, and agrees, with Jack Evans.
• DC apparently has set aside money to buy the soon to be former Georgetown Day School in Foxhall. It appears it will be used as a middle school, and it’s unclear how this will impact Hardy Middle School.

Georgetown Waterfront Park

Since news is slow these days, and everyone seems to love history posts, GM is launching a new series today: Lost Georgetown. In it, GM will explore a significant building from Georgetown’s past that has been demolished. He is starting with about the largest possible candidate: the Capital Traction Company Powerhouse.

Name: Capital Traction Company Powerhouse

Built By: Capital Traction Company

Constructed: 1910

Current Use: Demolished 1968

The Capital Traction Company was one of the two major streetcar companies that serviced the District at the turn of the 20th century. It was the primary streetcar company servicing Georgetown at that time and was centered around the massive Car Barn at 35th and M, which still stands today. Continue reading →

Photo by Matt Kiefer.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GM hears that Call Your Mother’s opening is still about a month and a half away.
• Blue Alley starts planning for live shows in August.

3400 block of N St.

Photo by Joe Flood.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Nice article on biking, in Georgetown and elsewhere.
• More on the streateries.

1000 block of Wisconsin Ave.

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM is checking out a photo of Georgetown Medical School when it was a lonely building. The photo is from June 30, 1931 and looks south across Reservoir Rd. to the building, with the rest of the campus in the background.

While Georgetown University created a medical school in 1851, the building seen here–the Medical-Dental Building–was opened literally days before this photo was taken. The present day hospital would follow 17 years later.

This photo also shows what the grounds of the former Hillandale estate looked like before it was turned into an unfortunately gated community in the 1970s.