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Field Guide to Georgetown Houses: The Early Victorian Period
This week GM is exploring the variety of historical architectural styles around Georgetown. Today GM explores the early Victorian period.
The two styles that dominated early Victorian architecture were Second Empire and Stick. However, there are no examples of Stick architecture in Georgetown that GM could find (the Stick style is not surprisingly tailored to wooden homes, which was not a popular building material in bricky Georgetown). So for Georgetown early Victorian architecture means only Second Empire. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Georgetown Cupcake gets patriotic
- Nextbus finally works
- Bourbon Steak’s Michael Mina and Hook’s old chef Barton Seaver to compete in Capital Food Fight 2009
Photo of crackling window by Flickr user Ohad* used under a Creative Commons license.
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ANC Roundup: Moratoriums get Moratoriumier
So soon did lose his seat and all at once – King Henry V, Act I, Scene 1
Seats are wonderful things. They allow us to stop standing, at least for a little while. They also allow us to eat sitting down. And drink. And drive cars to restaurants in order to eat or drink sitting down. And in Georgetown, anything that might attract more people in cars to anything is immediately viewed with suspicion. So it is from that observation that GM turns to the great Seat Moratorium War of 2009. Skirmish One of this war took place last night at the ANC meeting, and it was just one of the highlights of the last ANC meeting till September. Continue reading
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Field Guide to Georgetown Houses: Romantic Period
This week GM is exploring the varieties of historic architecture in Georgetown and offering a field guide to help you identify each particular style.
Today: Romantic Period
For American architecture, the Romantic period stretched from 1820s to the 1880s representing the last years of the Federal Period through to the middle stages of the Victorian Era. In Georgetown the two most common Romantic Period styles are Greek Revival and Italianate.
First up: Greek Revival.
Greek Revival style homes were the dominant style across the U.S. from 1830s to 1850s. So much so that it is also called the “National Style”. Whereas Roman designs influenced the Federal period, increasingly intellectuals looked to Greece as the more appropriate model for the young democracy. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- On the eve of WMATA finally giving us back NextBus, DDOT has upstaged it by offering its own real time prediction system for the Circulator
- The Georgetowner visits with a Georgetown-based eco-exterminator
- Murder in Montrose Park! Rather, fictional murder in Montrose Park! Georgetown-based murder mystery “Mortal Friends” by resident Jane Stanton Hitchcock hits the stores. Hitchcock will sit down at the Q&A Cafe July 7th.
Photo of canal by Flickr user singlecupofcoffee used under Creative Commons license.
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Field Guide to Georgetown Houses: Colonial and Federal Period
If there’s one constant in Georgetown real estate listings, it’s that every house, no matter its shape and style, is described as “Federal”. The problem is that only a small percentage of homes in Georgetown could fairly be described as “Federal”.
As GM described during his ten favorite things countdown, Georgetown represents a cross section of 19th century architecture. It has buildings of just about every major style from that time period. To help his readers better appreciate the wealth of architectural styles in Georgetown, GM is going to take a shot at writing a field guide to Georgetown homes.
First up: Colonial and Federal Homes Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Good morning Georgetown. Here’s the soaked latest:
- A fawn was found strolling down Wisconsin Ave.
- Fire breaks out at Paolos. The conflaglaration was put out before it did too much damage, except if you count traffic.
- Reminder: ANC2E meeting tonight at 6:30 at Visitation
Photo of Friday’s deluge by Flickr user alykat used under a Creative Commons license.
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