The Georgetown Metropolitan

Tudor Place

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Large N St. home to hit market for $26 million.
• Signs that the Streets market is still coming to the old 7-Eleven spot on P St.

It’s time for the monthly update for neighbors of Hyde Addison Elementary School! 

Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent Hyde PTA fundraisers (the 1310 Kitchen & Bar Pot-Pie-athon and the February 8 fundraiser at In Bocca Al Lupo).  Over $2000 was raised—funds which go directly to the school.  I will let you know about more fundraisers this spring!

PK3 and PK4 Lottery and Prospective Family Open House

The deadline to apply for the lottery for PK3 and PK4 at Hyde was March 1.  Results will be available on March 31.  

Hyde Addison has an in-person Prospective Family Open House on Friday March 10 at 10am at the school.  Please RSVP at: bit.ly/haeopenhouses; it will begin with a presentation, so plan to be on time!

Some of you may end up trying to decide about Hyde vs a private school (or another public school).  Please message me if you are interested in learning more about Hyde and making those decisions.  We decided to send our children to Hyde instead of Beauvoir and I am happy to explain how we reached that decision.

Hyde’s PTA is now on Instagram! Follow it to keep in touch about all the goings on at Hyde!

instagram.com/hydeaddisonpta

A new bridal shop is coming to Book Hill. And it will likely sound familiar, but misleadingly so. The shop is called Hitched and it’s coming to 1663 Wisconsin Ave.

The new shop specializes in wedding bands. It was started in Philadelphia by a married couple that was frustrated by their own search for rings. This will be their third location.

The reason the store’s name might sound familiar is that from 2005 until 2018 there was a shop of the same name just down the street. This Hitched was founded in Georgetown by two women and it focused on wedding gowns. It was held in high regard, particularly for its lovely window displays.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Write up of the last ANC meeting.
• DPR explains its plans for the Volta Park ball field.

Dumbarton Oaks

It seems just about every clothing store that has opened in Georgetown in recent years (and there’s been a lot!) have been primarily, if not exclusively, targeted towards women. The good news is that a new clothing store is coming that is a men’s store! The bad news is that it’s replacing one of the other few men’s clothing stores in the neighborhood.

The new store is Todd Snyder, a New York-based chain with just a handful of other locations (although its 2015 acquisition by American Eagle Outfitters probably portends a lot more stores). Funnily enough, I recently was looking for a roll neck sweater and found the store just through a Google search. And the sweater turned out to be pretty good, for what it’s worth!

It will be replacing Billy Reid, a southern-based chain that opened in 2013. So the total number of men’s clothing stores in Georgetown will remain the same.

Billy Reid, of course, replaced the Pizzeria Uno that occupied the address from 1981 until it closed in 2012. Prior to that it was several relatively short lived places, including Potagerie and Crumpets.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Large house next to Evermay for sale.
• GU mints a lot of Fulbrights!

Dumbarton Oaks

This week for Georgetown Time Machine, GM checks out a behind the scene photo from the epochal film St. Elmo’s Fire.

The movie was filmed in Georgetown in the fall of 1984. This shot shows the cast sitting in a Jeep CJ between filming. They’re parked at the corner of P and 31st. Seated are Rob Lowe, Mare Winingham, Emilio Estevez, Andrew McCarthy, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, and Demi Moore, a veritable quorum of the Brat Pack.

This set up appears in the film. Here they are driving down P St.:

Later they’re shown on O St.:

A closeup scene:

Fun fact: the film came out June 1985. By November DC adopted its first seat belt laws. Coincidence???