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9 Georgetown
University
37th St & O St, NW. Map 1 B2.
Tel (202) 687-0100. 8 7
∑ georgetown.edu
Georgetown University was
the first Catholic college to
be established in America.
Founded in 1789 by John
Carroll, and affiliated with
the Jesuit Order, the university
now attracts students of all
faiths from more than 100
countries around the world. Stone dog in the garden of Tudor Place
The oldest building on
the campus is the Old North the architect of the Capitol north to freedom. The present
Building, completed in (see pp52–3), to design a house. redbrick building was completed
1872. However, the most Generations of the Peters family in 1884 after the first church
recognizable structure is the lived here from 1805 to 1984. burned down.
Healy Building, a Germanic It is a mystery as to why this Mt. Zion Cemetery, the
design topped by a fanciful stuccoed, two-story Georgian oldest black burial ground in
spiral. The univer sity’s most structure with a “temple” porch Washington, is located a short
famous graduate is former is called Tudor Place, but it was distance away, in the middle
US president Bill Clinton. perhaps illustrative of the family’s of the 2500 block of Q Street.
English sympathies at the time.
The furniture, silver, china, w Oak Hill
and portraits provide a glimpse
into American social and cultural Cemetery
history; some of the pieces on 3001 R St, NW. Map 2 D1. Tel (202)
display come from Mount 337-2835. Open 9am–4:30pm Mon–
Vernon (see pp162–3). Fri, 11am–4pm Sat, 1–4pm Sun
(weather permitting). Closed Federal
q Mt. Zion Church hols. ∑ oakhillcemeterydc.org
William Wilson Corcoran
1334 29th St, NW. Map 2 D2. Tel (202)
234-0148. 5 11am Sun. 8 7 (see p115) bought the land
and Congress then established
This church is thought to have Oak Hill Cemetery in 1849.
had the first black congregation Today, about 18,000 graves
The Gothic-inspired Healy Building, in DC. The first church, at 27th cover the 25-acre site, which
Georgetown University and P Streets, was a “station” on is planted with huge oak trees.
the city’s original Underground Members of some of the city’s
Railroad. It provided shelter for most prominent families are
0 Tudor Place runaway slaves on their journey buried here, their names fea turing
throughout the city’s
1644 31st St, NW. Map 1 C2. Tel (202)
965-0400. Open 10am–4pm Tue–Sat, history, including
noon–4pm Sun. Closed Jan, Easter Magruder, Thomas,
Sunday, Memorial Day, Jul 4, Labor Beall, and Marbury.
Day, Thanksgiving, Dec 24, 25. & 8 At the entrance
= ∑ tudorplace.org to the cemetery is an
Italianate gatehouse
The manor house and large that is still used as
gardens of this Georgetown the superintendent’s
estate, designed by William lodge and office.
Thornton, offer a unique Northeast of the
glimpse into a bygone era. gatehouse is
Martha Washington, the the Spencer
First Lady, gave $8,000 to her family monument,
grand daughter, Martha Custis designed by Louis
Peter, and her granddaughter’s Comfort Tiffany. The
husband. With the money, granite low-relief of
they purchased eight acres an angel is signed by
and commissioned Thornton, Altar in Mt. Zion church Tiffany. Also notable is

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