The Georgetown Metropolitan

Photo by Mr. Gray.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Construction on the new GU hospital buildings set to start in January.
• Some ghost stories from Halcyon House.

Dumbarton Oaks Park

This week for Know Your Trees, GM is talking about the honey locust.

Unlike last week’s poplars, honey locusts definitely appear along sidewalks in Georgetown. They are really fast growers and can turn a sun-baked sidewalk into a sun-dabbled sidewalk fairly quickly. Continue reading →

Photo by Elsa Santoyo.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Assault that was possibly also a hate crime occurred at Wisconsin and M.
• Did you know there are ruins of a small factory just west of Georgetown?

Potomac River

One of the season’s highlights for Georgetown will return again this year on December 3rd. Saint Nick will be there to greet the kids, and there will be food, coffee, crafts, music and more. Come on out! Here are more of the details:

Breakfast with Santa at Volta Park – Please join the Friends of Volta Park as we gather to celebrate the season.   Children young and old are invited to take pictures with Santa.  Santa will be bringing lots of friends and activities including Christmas carolers, holiday crafts, and Coach John’s soccer school.  There will be complimentary coffee, hot chocolate, doughnuts and other baked goods.  Santa requests you please arrive early to see magical sleigh ride.   Sunday December 3^th 10am-noon.

Photo by Mr. Gray.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• You can get bathtub gin at the Graham hotel. But why?
• The time a drunken sailor caused a smallpox scare in Georgetown.

Montrose Park

Georgetown Heritage, a non-profit established to restore and improve the canal, has issued an ambitious proposal to do just that. Call it the High Lineification of the canal, if you will, but it is nothing if not dramatic.

The plan itself divided the canal through Georgetown into eight distinct sections: The Aqueduct, the Bend, the Walls, the Groves, the Locks, Rock Creek Confluence, Rock Creek and Mile Marker 0. Here are some of the more significant alternatives with each of these sections.

The Aqueduct:

The Aqueduct section runs roughly from the old Aqueduct abutment to 34th St. The primary focus of the proposals for this section, not surprisingly, concern the Aqueduct abutment itself.

The plan puts forward two proposals for improving the abutment: Alternative A and Alternative B. In both alternatives, the abutment would receive significant improvements to provide more safety and a finished look to what is currently essentially a ruin. The biggest difference between the two alternatives is that Alternative B proposes the construction of a decorative trestle, meant to evoke the structure of the old Aqueduct Bridge:

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Photo by Vision Planet Media.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Georgetown Main Street opens up shop. (GM is still a little hazy on what this group will actually do, but more the merrier!)
• A multiple generational Georgetown developer and his views on the future of the neighborhood.