February this year has brought a series of small snow falls and old-time memories of my boyhood in Glover Park. Of course, it used to snow a lot more in earlier times than it does in our warming climate now. In the early 1950s, for many years, D.C. police would come on heavy snow days … The post Paul Friday: Memories of Snow on W Street & “Suicide Hill” appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
The parkland west of Glover Park includes a former right of way, intended as a recreational drive, that nearly became a highway. In 1924 Glover gave the newly instituted National Capital Parks Commission seventy-seven acres in the valley of Foundry Branch, called the Glover Parkway and Children’s Playground; which, with the addition of twenty-eight … The post Glover-Archbold Parkway appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
A former parish burial ground on the campus of Georgetown University. The second burial ground of Holy Trinity Church was located a few blocks north and west of the church, at the western terminus of Third (P) Street, near the southwestern corner of the grounds of Visitation Convent. Although sometimes called Trinity Burial Ground, … The post The Old College Burial Ground appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
Holy Trinity Church and Georgetown University began discussions to arrive at a plan for the restoration of Holy Rood Cemetery in 2010. The discussions, which took eight years, were given added impetus by overlapping with Georgetown University’s reckoning––spurred by a series of articles in The Hoya––with its historic involvement in slavery. A Working … The post The Revival of Holy Rood Cemetery appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
For Carlton Fletcher’s artist website, please go to carltonfletcher.com Carlton Fletcher received his degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 1972), and American University (MFA, 1982), and was one of the founding members of the Washington Studio School (1985). Since 1977 he has had solo shows at Wolfe Street Gallery, Georgetown Art Gallery, Hull … The post Carlton Fletcher appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
“From Red Hill, which rises by pretty slopes at the rear of Georgetown, a fine view is had of the wide, winding river.” (Picturesque America, 1874) From the middle of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, descriptions and images of the view from heights of Georgetown recur with a frequency that surprises, …| Glover Park History
That the history of any American locality does not begin with the arrival of Europeans is well understood. Because everything to do with their laying claim to the land was reverently recorded––aside from a few observations about what little is known of the people that were here before the colonists arrived––early land transactions remain …| Glover Park History
While the eastern part of the present neighborhood was originally the northern extension of the city of Georgetown––an area dedicated to butchering and market gardening––the western part comes primarily from land purchased by banker Charles C. Glover from the estate of the butcher Henry Kengla. Residential development, fitful at first, took off in 1926, when … The post A Brief History of Glover Park appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
The site of the Ridge Road School––later known as the Tunlaw Road School––can be seen near the intersection of 44th and Milwaukee (now Macomb) Street, just east of Tunlaw Road (now New Mexico Avenue), on the one-acre diagonal lot marked “D.C.” It corresponds to the hill just south of what is now the Horace … The post The Tunlaw Road School appeared first on Glover Park History.| Glover Park History
Where does local history begin? That the history of any American locality does not begin with the arrival of European colonists is well understood. Nonetheless, aside from a few prefatory words (such as these) about what little is known of the populations that preceded what is most frequently referred to as “settlement,” that is generally …| Glover Park History
