Detail of map courtesy of Rob Pitingolo.
Last week, using data from DC Data Catalog Rob Pitingolo published a map of all of DC’s alleys. GM’s cut and pasted above a detail of that map showing just Georgetown.
Take a look at Rob’s full map here and compare it to Georgetown’s. Georgetown appears to have fewer alleys than the rest of central DC. It’s interesting to speculate why that is. Presumably during the formation of the village’s grid, Georgetown was as dependent (if not more) on horses and stables as the rest of the historic city was. It’s odd that many large blocks don’t have any alleys at all (of course, larger homes had carriage passageways from the front to the back to allow a horse to be housed in the back without an alley). Continue reading
The Georgetown Metropolitan 
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