3400 block of O St.
Wingo’s Renovating, Not Closing
GM walked by Wingo’s yesterday and saw a dismaying scene: The interior of the restaurant is completely empty. There had been a sign up recently announcing a vacation, but there was no sign any more, and the place was barren. It looked like a restaurant that was no more.
GM was particularly alarmed by the apparent closing. You see, a few years ago GM started a series on the Georgetown Metropolitan called “Our Town”. It was supposed to be a series where GM would profile a different independent shop. Unfortunately GM didn’t get very far in the series; he only did two: Proper Topper and Wingo’s. Well, Proper Topper closed it’s Georgetown shop about a year later (the Dupont location is still open and doing well). And so if Wingo’s closed, then it would give GM’s Our Town a small business kill-ratio of 100%. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by dani920.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Wait, some Georgetown households making between $50k and $100k give 18% of their income to charity? That can’t be right.
- Legal advice for students on getting arrested, by a student that subsequent to writing the piece, got arrested.
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Hurt Home Becomes the Montrose, Construction Begins
DC Mud reported yesterday that construction is finally beginning (this morning) on the Hurt Home and that the building is going to be redubbed “the Montrose”.
DC Mud wrote that there were no details on the layout or pricing of the 15 units, but that construction is planned to be complete by the end of 2013.
GM did actually get his hands on some unit plans that were shown to the Old Georgetown Board last year. Perhaps they weren’t the final final plans but they probably give a sense for what they will look like. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by mooasaurus.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Did you know Clyde’s owns a farm?
- Head downtown to find out what’s coming to the future Farmers Fishers and Bakers
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Now and a Long Time Ago: Washington and Gay St.
This week for Now and a Long Time Ago, GM is going a long ways back, all the way to the Civil War. The above photo from the Library of Congress is of the Seminary Hospital on Washington and Gay (30th and N nowadays).
The building was originally Miss Lydia English’s Finishing School for Girls. As this writer recounts:
From 1820 to 1861 this was “Miss English’s Seminary for Young Ladies”. Many of the daughters of Washington’s elite families were educated here under the direction of Miss Lydia Scudder English.
Miss English wrote in her brochure that she would provide girls with “that amount of mental and moral culture necessary to render them amiable, intelligent, and useful members of society”.
About 140 girls boarded each year at Miss Lydia English’s Georgetown Female Seminary. One of the most famous was Harriet Williams, the teenage bride of the middle aged Russian nobleman whose marital home is at 3322 O St. NW. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by M.V. Jantzen.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- PoP looks at the narrowest house in Georgetown.
- Community gathers to honor Tim Downs.
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