The Georgetown Metropolitan

3300 block of Q St.

As you surely know, it’s crazy hot this week! And while we’re all comfortably ensconced in air conditioned homes and offices, our poor street trees are baking away without relief. Even the brief showers we were promised last night–which would not have even been enough–evaporated before they got here. So please, listen to Casey Trees, and water your trees.

This is especially true for any tree on your block that has been planted within the last three years. Their roots aren’t nearly deep enough to reach whatever stores of moisture the soil still has. Too many trees get planted in Georgetown only to die within a year or two because nobody watered it. Continue reading →

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• BID looking to add more bike parking.
• Frosé (frozen rosé wine) is a thing apparently, and you can get it at the waterfront.

Georgetown Waterfront Park

This week on Now and Long Time Ago, GM visits St. John’s Episcopal Church on O St. GM found a postcard selling on Ebay with the old photo on it.

St. John’s was originally built around 1804. But it underwent a significant redesign in 1870. This is the style you can see in this photo, which GM would classify as Italianate. The rectory, which is the building on the left, was built in 1875 and sports a Second Empire style. Continue reading →

Photo by M.V. Jantzen.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The sale of the old Latham Hotel finally went through.
• Nice write-up on the Book Hill neighborhood.

C & O Canal

GM is offering a free bookcase to anyone who can pick it up. He needs to get rid of it and offered it for free on Craigslist. But apparently when people agree to pick up free things over Craigslist they believe it means they are “free to not actually show up”. So now GM is trying a different route.

It’s an interesting bookcase. It’s solid hardwood. Possible walnut. He purchased it at Weschler’s Auction House about ten years ago. It’s about 6 feet tall and 30 inches wide.

The shelves themselves are somewhat oddly shaped. They only are six inches apart. It’s perfect for cds, if anyone still has them. Continue reading →

Photo by Paul Goddin.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• SportsZone has a sign in their window announcing that they aren’t closing, but they are moving. Apparently to somewhere else in Georgetown.
• One of those “Escape Rooms” is coming to Georgetown (in the old West Elm space).

3200 block of Grace St.