The Georgetown Metropolitan

Photo by Ehpien.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• GBA VP, Hope Solomon, who has long complained about the holiday decorations around Georgetown, doesn’t like Georgetown Glow.
• GM missed this, but the Sovereign was claiming in November that they’d be open this year. It would be a great Christmas present!

1000 block of 31st St.

This week for Now and a Long Time Ago, GM is visiting the intersection of Pennsylvania Ave. and M St.

Nowadays there’s a drab gas station. But 64 years ago there stood the Peck Memorial Presbyterian Chapel. According to the history of the National Presbyterian Church the chapel was founded in 1886:

Covenant members were active on many fronts. In 1885, its women founded the Society of the Covenant, which through its successor organization, The Women’s Association, has operated continuously to this day. In 1886, members of Covenant founded the Peck Memorial Chapel as a mission outreach church in Georgetown, which provided vocational education for minorities and disadvantaged youth.

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Photo by albedo20.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• The cat cafe begins its kitten delivery service.
• GU student center wins design award.

This Wednesday at 7:00 pm at the Georgetown Public Library on R St., the esteemed architects David Adjaye and Laura Olin will present an update on their plans for the West Heating Plant property. This meeting was originally supposed to take place back in October but was delayed due to Adjaye falling ill.

Not much has changed about the situation so here is what GM wrote back in October:

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Photo by Elaine.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• As first reported by GM back in September, Kit and Ace will open in the Levi’s space and sell something called “performance cashmere”.
• Baked and Wired is a good place to pick up some holiday treats.

3200 block of O St.

Last week, GM wrote about what happens when people ignore street signs. This week he’s back with another street sign on a cobblestone street that people routinely ignore: the stop sign at O St. and Potomac.

The sign, seen above, is for eastbound traffic on O. And if you stand there for a few minutes you’ll notice that not even half the drivers even bother to slow down for the sign. They don’t even see it.

And there’s a reason for that: because the street is cobblestone (well, technically Belgian block) there’s no paint on the street. There’s nothing on the road surface itself to inform drivers that there’s a stop sign. There’s no painted crosswalk and there’s not even a simply painted white line. Continue reading →

Photo by Mike Maguire.

Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:

• Carol Joynt checks out Via Umbria.
• (Speaking of Carol, the sign she criticized on the skating rink is gone. If you’re a sign, don’t mess with her.)