Frida's Fifty Years In Georgetown

Georgetown House Tour 2012 planning underway

November 22, 2011

Our wonderful House Tour showing off special houses in our beloved Georgetown isn't till next April but its leaders are already meeting to make plans.

Stephanie Bothwell will be Chair for 2012, and Frida Burling gave a luncheon for 15 women yesterday at her home on 29th Street. Guests enjoyed seeing how formerly three little houses are now blended into one spacious home, with a wonderful Hugh Newell Jacobsen solarium onto the back garden. Naturally, nobody wanted to go home.

This famous Tour was started in 1931 to help fund the needy. These funds are now needed as never before. Let's all celebrate the 80th tour, started and kept going by parishioners and friends of St. John's Church, Georgetown.

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Friends of Rose Park invite community support

September 29, 2011

Our beloved Rose Park – which has filled our community with charming young couples who have chosen to live in Georgetown so their kiddies could enjoy playing in our wonderful village, and especially in the Park – needs care and improvements. With its tennis courts, ball field, tot lot, and playgrounds, the Park has become a magnet for the delightful young families now living in Georgetown.

Dr. Jim D'Orta has graciously agreed to allow us to have this year's fundraiser at his home, which is full of Washington history as it is the former home of Pamela Harriman. When Pamela and Averill Harriman were living here, their active social and political life needed more space than one house gave, and they added the next door house, which will be the lovely setting for our party. This year's benefit, on Thursday Oct. 6 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, will be catered by Café Milano.

Come at 6:30 to see this fascinating house, join David Dunning, Rose Park President and the Board, and see all your friends.

I am planning to be there, dear readers, and hope to see you. Pam Moore will offer new plans to update our beloved Rose Park, with roses added, too! Don’t miss this fun event and a chance to support our neighborhood treasure. Contributions of $150. to attend the event should be made payable to "Friends of Rose Park." Thank you!

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The best ever Georgetown House Tour is coming soon

April 21, 2011

The well known annual Georgetown House Tour honors the owners of the houses shown each year at a most prestigious Patrons Party -- this year on Thursday, April 28th, at one handsome historic red brick house on Q Street.

(Photo by: Georgetown House Tour) Frida Burling flanked by friends in support of the tour

Nancy and Ted Maffitt held elegant`dinner parties here for his State Deparment friends. Nancy was the sister of Betty Beale, the famous Society columnist who knew all of Washington big shots. Now this year, the party is hosted by the present owners, a charming young couple, Leslie Morgan Steiner and her husband Perry Steiner, who have transformed the lovely old house into a fascinating mansion.

Leslie is an interesting person who has published two books, one as a mother and the other as a woman bravely facing violence. Fortunately she got away from the latter situation and now has Perry.

Tour 2010: One of the few examples in Georgetown of a &amp;amp;amp;quot;late Victorian cottage,&amp;amp;amp;quot; according to the Historic American Buildings Survey of 1968. It was built between 1878 and 1880 for $4000. Hugh Newell Jacobsen led a renovation in the 1960s.

(Photo by: The Georgetown Dish) Tour 2010: One of the few examples in Georgetown of a &amp;amp;amp;quot;late Victorian cottage,&amp;amp;amp;quot; according to the Historic American Buildings Survey of 1968. It was built between 1878 and 1880 for $4000. Hugh Newell Jacobsen led a renovation in the 1960s.

The old house opens on to a lovely southern garden, but wait till you see how they have opened up the lower level. Bill Dean isn't the only person who has added spacious useful area to his house!

Don't miss this event, which also benefits our Georgetown's wonderful agencies who help our local needy.

You can "do good" and have fun at the same time!

The Tour was started about eighty years by the women of St. John's Church to raise funds for the ministries of their church, and the Patrons Party was begun about ten years ago, first hosted by Kitty Kelley, then Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee, and on, each year at the home of a prominent Georgetowner.

This year Martha Vicas and Nancy Margaret Adler are the Co-Chairs.

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Tour 2010 helpers Alexandra Small and Sharon Alexander helped a visitor (right) while Citizens Association of Georgetown president Jennifer Altemus looked on.

(Photo by: The Georgetown Dish) Tour 2010 helpers Alexandra Small and Sharon Alexander helped a visitor (right) while Citizens Association of Georgetown president Jennifer Altemus looked on.