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5 Old Stone House for the city. However, most 6 M Street
3051 M St, NW. Map 2 D2. Tel (202) historians today now believe M St, NW. Map 1 C2.
426-6851. Open 11am–6pm daily. that they met in a tavern loca ted @ 30, 32, 34, 36, 38.
@ 30, 32, 34, 36, 38. 8 call (202) elsewhere in Georgetown.
895-6070. 7 limited Over the years, the building One of two main shopping
∑ nps.gov/olst has housed a series of arti sans, streets in Georgetown, M Street
and in the 1950s it even served is also home to some of the most
The Old Stone House may be the as offices for a used-car dealer- historic spots in the city. On the
only building in Washington ship. In 1960 the National Park northeast corner of 30th and M
that pre-dates the American Service restored it to its pre- Streets, on the current site of a
Revolution. It was built in 1765 Revolutionary War appear ance. bank, stood Union Tavern. Built
by Christopher Layman, and Today park rang ers give talks in 1796, the tavern played host
the tiny two-story cottage has (noon–5pm) about what to, among others, Presidents
a large garden, which is a Georgetown would have been George Washington and John
welcome respite from the like during the Colonial days. The Adams, Napoleon’s younger
shops of busy M Street. Old Stone House is technically brother Jerome Bonaparte,
There is a legend that still the oldest house in DC, although author Washington Irving, and
persists about the Old Stone The Lindens, which is now in Francis Scott Key, the composer
House – that it was the Suter’s Kalorama, was built in the mid- of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Tavern where Washington and 1750s in Massachusetts and later During the Civil War, the inn was
Pierre L’Enfant made their plans moved to Washington. turned into a temp orary hospital
where Louisa May Alcott, the
author of Little Women, nursed
wounded sold iers. In the 1930s
the tavern was torn down and
replaced by a gas station. Dr.
William Thornton, architect of
the US Capitol and Tudor Place
(see p128) lived at 3219 M Street.
On the south side of M Street
is Market House, which has been
the location of Georgetown’s
market since 1751. In 1796 a
wood frame market house was
constructed and later replaced
by the current brick market in
The picturesque Old Stone House 1865. In the 1930s the market

8 N Street An excellent example of a
N St, NW. Map 1 C2. @ 30, 32, 34, 36. Federal house is the Riggs-
Riley House at 3038 N Street,
N Street is a collection of once owned by Averill and
18th-century American Federal Pamela Harriman. At 3041–3045
architecture – a style favored by N Street is Wheatley Row. These
leaders of the new nation as houses were designed to provide
being of a more refined design not only maximum light from
than the earlier Georgian houses. large windows but also maxi-
At the corner of 30th and mum privacy as they were
N Streets is the Laird-Dunlop placed above street level.
Only the two end houses in House. Today it is owned by
this group of fine Federal homes Sally Quinn, the widow of Known as Wheatley Row,
(numbers 3327–3339) are still in Benjamin Bradlee, the former these three well-designed
their original state. editor of the Washington Post. Victorian town houses were
built in 1859.

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