Following the construction of the George Washington Memorial Parkway in the 1950’s, proposals began to emerge to turn Canal Road NW into a highway and to connect it to Virginia by building a bridge across the Potomac over a small group of rocky islets known as the...
Sofia Owen moved to the west side of Georgetown with her new husband in 1940 from her hometown of Monte Video, Uruguay. After a brief departure while her husband was stationed in Brazil by the State Department, the Owens returned to Georgetown in 1958, this time on...
Dr. Jack Lynch is a third-generation Georgetowner whose grandfather was a physician and whose father was a pharmacist here. In his interview with Ronda Bernstein, he tells stories of Georgetown when it was a small village – with milk delivered by horse-drawn...
Betty Hays fell in love with Mexican art and culture while on vacation with her husband. So much so that they decided to open The Phoenix on Wisconsin Avenue and share their love of Mexico with Georgetown. As owner of one of the oldest retails stores in Georgetown,...
Janice Mynchenberg became pastor of the Georgetown Lutheran Church in 2013. In this interview she reflects upon the history of this church which occupies the northwest corner of Volta Place and Wisconsin Avenue. The church established itself in 1766 when a group of...
