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Support Concerts in the Parks Tomorrow Night
CAG’s annual Concerts in the Park are getting bigger and bigger every year and you definitely should definitely bring your family to them this summer. But before the concerts get here, you can help bring them here by attending a fun fund raiser tomorrow night at the TD bank on Wisconsin. Here are the details:
who robbed the bank?
you and any one of your friends or neighbors in georgetown could be a suspect! join us for an evening of mystery and suspense at our annual concerts in the parks fundraiser. listen to a dj spin your favorite
tunes, enjoy drinks and light bites, but keep your eyes open and your ears to the ground — clues will be all around you. the word on the street is that a heist is going down and you don’t want to be the one
to take the fall while your neighbors make off with the loot! and the suspects may really surprise you…Join your friends and neighbors and be the one to solve the bank robbery mystery, while supporting CAG’s summer concert series.
saturday, march 3, 2012
7-11pm
TD bank
1611 wisconsin ave, nw
$125 per person
buy your tickets at
w w w . c a g t o w n . o r g / y o u m a y b e a s u s p e c t
or send a check to CAG at 1365 wisconsin ave, nw washington, dc 20007
attire: thomas crown affair chic
tickets are limited…buy yours today!
Should be a great time. GM himself is going to be one of the “suspects” so come on down and see whether he’s a dirty thief!
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Henry Eason.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- The night U2 played Georgetown.
- Yet another meeting on the boathouse zone planned.
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Georgetown’s Lost Country Club
Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.
GM’s really into history this week! Yesterday he brought you the fascinating 1903 survey maps that show every building in Georgetown at the time. Some of the larger institutional or commercial buildings are labeled, and one in particular caught his eye. It was on Mount Hope, the large home that is at 3308 R St. GM knew this house was famous for once being owned by the legendary hostess (and Hope diamond owner) Evelyn Walsh McLean. But in 1903, this property was labeled as something called the “Dumbarton Club”. A little digging turned up this description from the 1951 book “A Portrait of Old George Town” by Grace Dunlap Ecker:
Mr. Robinson’s beautiful daughter, Margaret, married Thomas Campbell Cox, son of Colonel John Cox, and they lived at Mount Hope until they moved to Gay Street. I remember Mrs. Cox as an old lady, still beautiful, and regal in bearing. The Weaver family lived there after that until the early 1900’s, when this place was used as the Dumbarton Club. It had very good tennis courts, and for a while a nine-hole golf course where the suburb of Berleith [sic] is now.
So Georgetown once had a country club? Somehow GM’s not very surprised.
The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by Chris Weiland.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- GM should try to keep this a secret, but his desire to inform is too strong: Dumbarton Oaks has some of the best cherry blossoms in the city.
- Umm, that’s it. Guess Leap Day sort of sucked the Georgetown news out of the air…
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Great Old Survey Maps For Georgetown
After writing Monday’s article on the Census and how it can tell you the stories of the former inhabitants of your home, GM came across a fantastic resource from the Library of Congress. It is a page called “Researching Historic Washington, DC Buildings” and it includes dozens of links to databases and collections of materials with reams of information on old DC buildings.
But one resource GM found particularly interesting. It’s a digitalized version of Baist’s Real Estate Atlas of Surveys for Washington DC. It’s a highly detailed map of every street and building in the city from the turn of the last century. Specifically it was published in 1903, but GM doesn’t see his home on the map, and as discussed on Monday, there were residents in his house at least by 1900. But nonetheless, it reflects what buildings were there around that time.
Here are the maps for Georgetown:
Here’s southeast Georgetown. Note the wooden bridge for K St. across Rock Creek, the factories and lumber yards on the water, and the fact Virginia Ave. used to go across the waterfront. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Photo by allycat.
Good Leap Day Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Ugh, of all the things the long dormant 7-11 on Wisconsin could become, GM didn’t put Edible Arrangements high on his list.
- Georgetown resident complains about shirtless college dudes. Gets roundly mocked.
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