The Georgetowner: February 12, 2020 Issue

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FEBRUARY 12 - 25, 2020

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ABOUT THE COVER

An interior shot of 2735 P St. NW — the property sold for $3,495,000 in August. Photo courtesy Joseph Kotula, Washington Fine Properties. See the rest of what sold in your neighborhood, beginning on page 11.

UP & COMING · 4 Events Calendar

NEWS · 5 - 7 Town Topics

EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8 Editorial CAG Update Letters to the Editor

DOWNTOWNER · 9 Downtown News

COVER · 10 - 13

THE WASHINGTON BALLET’S ‘BALANCHINE + ASHTON’

2020 Real Estate Trends The Sky’s the Limit At Home with Theo Adamstein A. Michael Sullivan Jr., 1942-2020

PUBLISHER Sonya Bernhardt

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Robert Devaney

FEATURES EDITORS COPY EDITOR Ari Post Richard Selden Gary Tischler SENIOR FASHION & BEAUTY CORRESPONDENT DIRECTOR Peggy Sands Lauretta McCoy CONTRIBUTORS GRAPHIC DESIGN Mary Bird Troy Riemer Susan Bodiker Dennis Belmont Allyson Burkhardt Evan Caplan PHOTOGRAPHERS Didi Cutler Philip Bermingham Donna Evers Jeff Malet Michelle Galler Stephanie Green ADVERTISING & Amos Gelb MARKETING Wally Greeves Kate Sprague Kitty Kelley Richard Selden Rebekah Kelley Kelly Sullivan Jody Kurash Shelia Moses INTERN Kate Oczypok Lily Martin Linda Roth Alison Schafer Mary Ann Treger

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Dan Roberge and Sona Kharatian. Photo by Procopio Photography. Courtesy TWB.

BUSINESS · 14 Ins & Outs

‘SILENT SKY’ AT FORD’S THEATRE

ARTS · 15

BY STEPH AN IE GR EEN

DC Artswatch

Jonathan David Martin as Peter and Laura C. Harris as Henrietta. Photo by Scott Suchman.

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FOOD & WINE · 16

Wisconsin Ave. Cafe Is Now Lutèce by Bonaparte

CLASSIFIEDS · 17

CUPID’S UNDIE RUN BEGINS 2ND DECADE IN D.C. (PHOTOS)

Service Directory

BOOK CLUB · 18

BY JEFF M AL ET

Kitty Kelley Book Club

The 11th Undie Run in D.C. was held on Feb. 8.

Photo by Jeff Malet.

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FEBRUARY 20, 21 AND 22

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery will host a free Presidents’ Weekend fun day of crafts, music, dancing, games and special tours of “America’s Presidents.” The Washington Nationals’ Racing Presidents and experts from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will be on hand. For details, visit npg.si.edu. Eighth and F Streets NW.

Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will conduct performances of Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony by the National Symphony Orchestra in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets are $15 to $99. For details, visit kennedy-center.org.

PRESIDENTIAL FAMILY FUN DAY

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ABT FAMILY DANCE WORKSHOP

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VALENTINE’S BALL AT ITALIAN EMBASSY

VALENTINE’S DATE NIGHT WITH CATS Cat cafe Crumbs & Whiskers invites area couples to an intimate, cat-filled date night.

“Nothing says ‘I love you!’ more than a pile of 20 snuggly cats, delicious sweet treats, and a complimentary cafe beverage for you both.” Tickets start at $35. For details, visit crumbsandwhiskers.com. 3211 O St. NW.

LOVE SONGS AT STRATHMORE

VALENTINE’S DAY TEQUILA TASTING Cielo Rojo Restaurant will hold two seatings for a G4 tequila tasting on Valentine’s Day. After a house margarita, each of four tequilas will be paired with a tapas-sized plate of food, ending with dessert. Tickets are $100.

For details, visit eventbrite.com. 7056 Carroll Ave., Takoma Park, Maryland.

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This magical evening at the Embassy of Italy will feature Italian food, an open bar, a live orchestra, a late-night DJ, dancing, movies and a presentation of opera excerpts including the balcony scene from “Roméo et Juliette.” Tickets are $90 ($128 VIP, with early admission). For details, visit eventbrite. com. 3000 Whitehaven St. NW.

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“America’s Got Talent” winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. will serenade couples with classic love songs at a Valentine’s Day concert at AMP by Strathmore.

Tickets are $28 to $45. For details, visit ampbystrathmore.com. 11810 Grand Park Ave., North Bethesda, Maryland.

SCHUBERT AND MAHLER SYMPHONIES

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LOFT GRAND REOPENING EVENT

Artists from American Ballet Theatre will lead a free 45-minute workshop at the Kennedy Center for families with children age 10 and under. Children must participate with an adult. ABT is performing “Giselle” through Feb. 16 in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Tickets are $49 to $295. For details, visit kennedy-center.org.

The Georgetown Loft is getting a makeover and will be celebrating with bubbly sips, sweet snacks and a gift with purchase. Area residents are invited to stop by to check out the store’s new look and shop the spring collection. For details, visit stores.loft.com.

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Pizzeria Paradiso’s quarterly beer festival — featuring new seasonal beer samples, arcade games and a special menu of roasted chestnuts, fondue and pizza — will return to the Game Room in Georgetown. Tickets are $15, including four 6 oz. pours and a souvenir glass. For details, visit eatyourpizza.com.

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JOSHUA BELL AT STRATHMORE Violin virtuoso Joshua Bell will conduct the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at Strathmore in a program featuring Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98. Tickets are $55 to $175. For details, visit strathmore.org. 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland.

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TOWN TOPICS

4 Skeletons Found on Q St.

BY RO BE RT DEVA NEY Human remains were found in a Q Street basement in Georgetown on Feb. 4.

The discovery may have surprised a few.

But many Georgetowners, especially those who live on the 3300 block of Q, know that this place still has history to reveal.

In the case of the Q Street homes, which stand across from Volta Park — the Old Presbyterian Burying Ground in the 1800s — the dirt under their yards or at their foundations has been known to yield human skeletons.

Assistant City Archaeologist Christine Ames records data in the basement of a Q Street home in Georgetown. Georgetowner photo.

“There’s history right beneath our feet.”

— Joe Gibbons Last week, workmen at 3317 Q St. NW found four skeletons, according to residents and Joe Gibbons of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, in whose district the bones were uncovered.

When that happens, the D.C. police are called, crime-scene tape goes up and the medical examiner’s office makes an appearance. Next to arrive is City Archaeologist Ruth Trocolli of D.C.’s Historic Preservation Office.

Trocolli told The Georgetowner that the remains appear to be from the 1830s, but a forensic investigation is ongoing.

The team renovating the old wooden house — Prinar Development LLC and Christian Zapatka Architect, PLLC — called a halt to the work of putting in new stairs on the ground level so Trocolli and her assistants could measure the space. The partially finished basement has exposed dirt in the back. (The homeowner donated the bones to the Historic Preservation Office.)

The discovery has additional significance because the home’s property backs up to

The Q Street home under renovation where human remains were found. Georgetowner photo. property on Dent Place once owned and built upon by Yarrow Mamout, who arrived in America enslaved but was later freed and became a successful Georgetown businessman.

The Q Street house — where a tombstone was found on the roof 60 years ago — will eventually be refitted for the 21st century.

Still, the past is not far away. As Gibbons remarked, “There’s history right beneath our feet.”

Photo by Steven Rattinger

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TOWN TOPICS

GU Suspends Travel to China

Verizon Apologizes ‌ Sort Of

BY PEGGY SA NDS

BY PEGGY SAN D S

On Feb. 4, an updated Georgetown University public health alert about the potentially fatal coronavirus now spreading worldwide announced: “All universitysponsored travel to mainland China has been suspended for faculty, staff and students until further notice.�

For students and scholars coming from China to Georgetown, the warning was even more foreboding. “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has placed a temporary ban on entry into the United States for foreign nationals (other than immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents) who have been to mainland China in the last 14 days.� “We are taking an abundance of caution even though there have been no reported cases,� Georgetown Provost Robert Groves wrote in a university-wide email on Jan. 28.

But there are reasons for concern.

About 44 percent of the 12,500 international students who have been admitted and registered on F-1 or J-1 visas in the District of Columbia are from China. That compares to about 35 percent nationally.

Chinese nationals form the largest international student and scholar population on the GU campus. In addition, according to the university: “After Europe, the AsiaPacific region is the second most popular destination for Georgetown University students and faculty who go abroad on official exchange study programs. Two of Georgetown’s most active international partners are Fudan University in Shanghai and Tsinghua University in Beijing.�

On a national basis, however, study abroad to China decreased by 2.5 percent in 2019, according to the Institute of International Education.

Ellington Field Transfer OK With ANC

“It’s not about the money. It’s about the frustration it all caused.�

That statement by Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Elizabeth Miller summed up the feelings of dozens of residents in Georgetown, Burleith, Washington Circle, Observatory Circle, Foxhall Road and other parts of Northwest D.C. after almost three weeks of being shut out of power in December by Verizon. “We regret all the inconveniences caused by the significant outages that resulted when a subcontractor accidentally cut through a major power connection under the 31st Street Bridge,� said Verizon Director of State Government Affairs Mario Acosta-Velez. “It was a significant accident and outage, and our crews, including the managers, worked round the clock, round the clock,� he repeated, “to restore connections by Dec. 22.�

Several frustrated residents said there was no way for them to communicate and didn’t know what was going on except by word of mouth. “We weren’t sure who exactly was affected in the network,� Acosta-Velez responded. “Often connector boxes are in private backyards that are hard to access.�

“You could have been more proactive with copper-wire-based customers who paid for that, who get billed extra,� Commissioner Gwen Lohse told David Capozzi, associate general counsel for Verizon. “All I was offered was a $9 discount in my monthly charges,� a neighbor added. “Hmm,� was the audible response. “What lessons did you learn?� asked Lohse of the three officials, including Candace Austin of Verizon’s state government and community affairs office, during the 10-minute explanatory and scolding session. “We need to improve communications,� said Acosta-Velez. “Any ideas would be welcome.�

A Verizon truck on 31st Street near the bridge work. Georgetowner photo.

BY PEGGY SA NDS The administrative transfer of the formerly little-known, now hot-in-the-spotlight Duke Ellington School playing field from DC Public Schools to the Department of Parks and Recreation generated passionate discussion from neighbors and regular users at the Georgetown-Burleith advisory neighborhood commission meeting on Feb. 3.

In the end, ANC 2E unanimously passed a resolution to be sent to Mayor Muriel Bowser that expressed three agreed-upon principles for the field’s improvement, “regardless of which agency of the DC Government is charged with responsibility for its management.�

The conflict really was over a matter of trust. The problem erupted last year when a contract between DPR and Maret School for use of the playing field at the Jelleff Recreation Center came up for renewal.

In 2009, when the city was considering selling the property, the private school had invested more than $1 million to completely modernize the field, pool, fencing and lighting. In exchange, Maret was given a 10-year contract for priority usage of the field on school weekdays during the fall and spring. There was an implication that the contract would be renewed for another 10 years if all the conditions had been met.

However, many Georgetown residents and commissioners pointed out that times had changed. D.C. now has the funds for school and recreation projects without going to the private sector, and Georgetown and surrounding neighborhoods have many more school and youth athletic teams that need playing space.

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Last year, ANC 2E passed two resolutions urging DPR to include priority for publicschool use in any contract regarding the Jelleff field. But in August of 2019, the department signed a renewed agreement with Maret that pretty much duplicated the first one. This time, Maret committed between $500,000 and $900,000 for renovation of the field and recreation center over the next 10 years.

Now, with DPR about to take over the administration of Ellington Field, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Kishan Putta proposed a resolution calling for DC Public Schools to retain management of the field, which he has advocated since the transfer was proposed. Putta lives a block from Ellington Field and uses it frequently for family recreation. “But it’s the mayor’s field, the mayor’s money and the mayor’s administration,� said Commissioner Joe Gibbons. “We really have no power over the transfer and they don’t have to respond to this resolution in any way.� “We all have the same goals: to have a first-class community field that answer the needs of our public schools and neighbors,� said ANC Chairman Rick Murphy. “We need to have a resolution that will build on that and that the city officials have to respond to.�

Murphy then read a detailed resolution covering those points, adding a suggestion that a traffic impact study be part of the planning. “We’re asking for a responsible process here,� stated Commissioner Lisa Palmer.

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POLICE RAID MR NICE GUYS AGAIN

For the second time in three months, Mr Nice Guys — a CBD smoke shop at the corner of 33rd Street and Wisconsin Ave. NW in Georgetown — was raided by police in SWAT gear. Eight armed and helmeted Metropolitan Police Department officers smashed the front door glass of the store on Thursday afternoon, Jan. 30, reportedly seizing marijuana-infused edible products and cash, among other items.

No one was inside at the time.

The store had just reopened after being shut down in December in a similar police raid.

Co-owners Greg Wimsatt and Damion West went to court on suspicion of selling cannabis

The upstairs business at 1660 33rd St. NW was raided by police on Jan. 30. Photo by Cristi Cline.

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(that is, marijuana) at the shop, which is illegal.

But it’s complicated.

D.C. marijuana law permits small amounts of marijuana to be grown and used personally on private property by adults over 21 years old.

But it does not allow for cannabis to be sold in a store (hemp is different). A clever loophole has seen some shops offer customers up to one ounce as a “gift.”

That’s what Mr Nice Guys is purported to do. The store sells T-shirts and other products, some for seemingly very high prices. For instance, one might buy a T-shirt for a certain (higher than normal) price, then receive a gift of a packet of marijuana. The shop selfidentifies as an Initiative 71-compliant CBD marijuana delivery service. The question is, how much?

There are other complaints, too. Some neighbors clearly believe the shop — located on the corner of a one-way residential street, just off Wisconsin Avenue at the tip of the popular Book Hill shopping block — is breaking the law and creating a public nuisance.

Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Joe Gibbons said, “Neighbors told me that the smell from the shop is ‘ungodly’ and that it attracts ‘troublesome’ customers.”

Some customers enter and park the wrong way, Gibbons told The Georgetowner. And

there are sometimes long lines. In December, what the shop’s owners called a heated interaction with neighbors was captured on mobile phone video.

“In Georgetown we want safe, legal businesses,” Gibbons said. “We want all the new type things out here. We don’t want illegal drug and narcotics sales. But I want this business to succeed, to fly, and will help them with their interactions with the neighbors and the regulatory boards.”

Wimsatt denies illegal activity. “We’re not harmful,” he said. “We’re nonviolent people.

We’re friendly people. We’re not no threat to nobody. Nothing bad’s happened to nobody here. I mean, it’s clearly bias.”

“We have our cigarette license,” said West, emphasizing that they were not doing anything illegal.

After police raided Mr Nice Guys, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs boarded up the business with signs saying it is shut down.

WOMAN ASSAULTED

Last month, two women were assaulted as they walked in Georgetown, Metropolitan Police reported. The assailant, who struck them in the face and ran away, was later apprehended by MPD.

MORGAN PHARMACY BREAKIN

Morgan Pharmacy at 3001 P St. NW was burglarized on Jan. 21. The culprit took the cash register. Also broken into overnight that same week: Insomnia Cookies, Pica Taco and Kitchen No. 1 on the 3200 block of O Street NW.

MAN DIES AFTER DRIVING INTO POTOMAC AT BOATHOUSE

A man died after he drove his pickup truck into the Potomac River just after midnight on Feb. 4 from the pier at Thompson’s Boathouse. D.C. Fire and EMS, as well as the Harbor Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, arrived for a rescue that became a recovery. Park Police and Secret Service Police were also on hand. The body was recovered around 2 a.m. The cause of the accident has not been ascertained by police.

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EDITORIAL

OPINION CAG UPDATE

Exploring Homelessness

BY C H ERYL GR AY

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Our Lives, Our Presidents Are you a baby boomer? Then you spent your stroller years during the administration of Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson. Gen Xers were weaned, so to speak, on Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. And millennials are children of the Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton presidencies (Gen Y started to appear during Clinton’s second term).

Seated in your high chair, you probably weren’t following national politics as closely as you do now. But, assuming you were raised in the U.S., your life couldn’t help but be determined by the occupant of the Oval Office in your childhood.

Part of this has to do with policy. How did the president’s actions impact the economy, employment, education, social services, international relations? Was our country fighting a war, hot or Cold, when you were in diapers?

But perhaps even more important, as no one past toddlerhood needs reminding, presidents from their bully pulpit can set the tone of the national discourse. Do any of the following phrases ring a bell?

“Ask not what your country can do for you.”

“Pat doesn’t have a mink coat.”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

And, though he never used the word “malaise,” President Carter’s speech on July 4, 1979, will forever be branded with it.

We, the people, seem to choose our

presidents in seesaw fashion, going from introvert (Carter) to extrovert (Reagan), from aw-shucks (George W. Bush) to cerebral (Barack Obama) to unfiltered (Donald Trump).

For many of us, to view clips of President Reagan or President Obama speaking at a campaign rally, and then to see our current president speaking at his rallies, is to experience not only nostalgia but cognitive dissonance. Judging from the audience reaction, however, there are those who find it a refreshing change.

Here, in the very city named for the first president, we live our lives near the Commander in Chief. He (she, at some future point) resides temporarily in our city. Washington residents can hardly help but feel a personal connection to POTUS, reacting to the presidential personality as one would to a neighbor.

This coming Monday is Presidents’ Day, the successor to Washington’s Birthday, celebrated since 1971 on the third Monday of February. This year, it falls on Feb. 17.

(George Washington was born on Feb. 11, 1732, according to the Julian calendar then in effect; Gregorianized, the date became the more familiar Feb. 22.)

So let us, in this election year, take a moment on Presidents’ Day to consider the strengths and weaknesses of the presidents we’ve shared our lives with — their policies, their words, the tone they’ve set — and think hard about who we’d like as a leader, a neighbor and an influence on the generation to come.

Who’s your favorite president?

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Yarrow’s Bones?

In reference to the story, “4 Skeletons found on Q Street,” one of these could be Yarrow Mamout. I wrote the book on him, “From Slave Ship to Harvard,” and participated in the archaeology on his property in 2015. That lot is on Dent Place and shares a backyard with the Q Street houses. Yarrow (his last name) is the subject of a famous portrait by the artist Charles Willson Peale. Yarrow came on a slave ship in 1752. Once freed, he bought the Dent Place property. He was so famous that his obituary in 1823 was carried by white newspapers. Peale wrote one that

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said Yarrow was buried in the garden where he resorted to pray.

The 2015 archaeology found neither grave nor garden. However, the lot where these recent bodies were found was vacant, set aside for the Episcopal Church, in Yarrow’s day. So his garden might have been there with vegetables, fruit trees, flowers like the one on Peale’s Belfield farm near Philadelphia. Or the garden might have been a cemetery for African Americans on the church property.

— James H. Johnston, Bethesda

An in-depth exploration of homelessness in Washington, D.C., and Georgetown kicked off the Citizens Association of Georgetown’s 2020 program of community meetings on Jan. 22.

We had a full house in the beautiful sanctuary of Grace Episcopal Church, which houses daytime services for Georgetown Ministry Center.

Lindsay Curtin, policy advisor to the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness, reviewed patterns of homelessness in D.C., along with the District government’s current policies to address it.

Every night, some 600 people sleep on the streets in the city, with over 10 times that number in shelters or other temporary housing. Curtin noted that substantial progress has been made in the past few years to reduce the incidence of homelessness in families, while progress has been slower for individuals who are homeless.

The next speaker was Sean Read, who oversees numerous key programs at Friendship Place, an organization that provides street outreach services in Georgetown. He emphasized the history of trauma that often accompanies homelessness and the importance of respect and consistency in building the trust necessary to help those in need.

The Georgetown Business Improvement District’s John Wiebenson, vice president of Georgetown Ministry Center’s board, then shared the center’s history and current board efforts to ensure a sustainable future for homeless services in Georgetown.

One key question is how Georgetown residents can help.

Both Curtin and Read stressed the critical need for more affordable housing in D.C. and called on residents to proactively support policies to increase its supply. They urged developers to build more affordable housing and employers to consider hiring people experiencing homelessness.

In addition, while noting that not all panhandlers are homeless, they suggested that small gifts in kind — such as socks or low-denomination gift cards — can be very helpful to those on the street. And simply reaching out to ask people their names can be a valuable gift.

CAG would like to thank Rector John Graham for welcoming us to Grace Church and all the residents who joined us, many of whom brought scarves, mittens and socks to donate to Georgetown Ministry Center.

Our next community meeting, on Monday, Feb. 24, at the Ritz-Carlton, will focus on transportation (including scooters) and pedestrian safety. We hope to see you there!

Cheryl Gray is president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown.

Letters to the Editor Needed: Respect from the Post Office As a busy, stay-at-home mom to a toddler and a frequent customer of the U.S. Postal Service, I wanted to bring to your attention a significant safety and accessibility issue at the USPS location at 1215 31st St. NW in Georgetown.

I often visit this location with my toddler in her stroller and, on many occasions, with heavy packages to ship or simply packages that do not fit in the mailbox on the street.

At the risk of injuring myself or my child, or leaving my child in her stroller unattended on the sidewalk (neither of which I am prepared to do, nor should I be asked to do), the double sets of stairs leading up to the main entrance of this location are not an option for me. On these occasions, my only safe and accessible avenue into the store is by the ramp that leads to a side entrance.

Unfortunately, the side entrance is always locked and the USPS employees who work at this store very rarely answer the side door (despite my repeated attempts to knock loudly and respectfully ask for help). And on the rare occasions they do answer, I am always met with a hostile reception and, at times, an unreasonable demand to go back

around to the front entrance — again with my clearly visible child, stroller and packages in tow!

Not only is this a problem for me as a mom trying to get errands done while attending to and keeping my child safe, it may be a much more serious concern for the many disabled Americans who rely on USPS every day for their mail and shipping needs.

Indeed, it may be against the law based on the requirements set forth for USPS facilities under the Architectural Barriers Act. I’m not asking for much from USPS — just have your employees consistently and respectfully open the side entrance for customers who need it to access the store so that everyone can use USPS’s services in an accessible, safe and dignified manner. And before I finish, I would like express gratitude to countless neighbors, friends and faces both familiar and unfamiliar of Georgetown: thank you, dear Georgetowners, for stopping on the sidewalk and graciously carrying package(s) inside for me.

— Alexandra Moskowitz

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NATS SPRING TRAINING STARTS UP

Now that the Super Bowl winner has been decided, it’s time to think about the return of the 2019 World Series Champs.

The Washington Nationals are starting spring training today, Wednesday, Feb. 12, in West Palm Beach, Florida. The first game, against the Houston Astros, is set for Feb. 22.

16TH ST. RUSH-HOUR PARKING BAN OPPOSED

Dupont and Logan Circle residents along 16th Street NW between U and O Streets are protesting plans to ban rush-hour parking on the non-rush-hour side of the north-south thoroughfare. The plans also include a dedicated 16th Street bus lane and extension of the morning rush to 10 a.m. and the evening rush to 7:30 p.m, both of which are welcomed by area residents.

POTOMAC PHIL DIDN’T GET PUNXY’S MEMO

Despite both being groundhogs, Potomac Phil did not get Punxsutawney Phil’s earlyspring memo. D.C.’s version of the famous groundhog saw his shadow on Feb. 2 (Groundhog Day), resulting in a prediction of six more weeks of winter — even though D.C. has barely had a winter as it is.

Mayor Bowser with daughter Miranda.

BOWSER DAUGHTER GOING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL

Mayor Muriel Bowser, who rarely shares anything about her young daughter Miranda, announced that she will be sending her to her assigned neighborhood public school: Shepherd Elementary. The topic came up during a meeting of the DC Public Charter School Board.

D.C.’S OFFICIAL MAMMAL: LITTLE BROWN BAT?

Typically, bats are seen as creepy nocturnal animals that carry diseases, but a few D.C. Girl Scouts think otherwise.

About a dozen scouts testified before a Council committee in support of a bill that would make the little brown bat, an endangered animal, the District’s official state mammal. D.C. already has an official state bird, tree, fruit, stone and dinosaur.

MAYOR WANTS 4 PERCENT MORE FOR EDUCATION

Mayor Bowser announced earlier this month that she is planning on increasing spending for public school students by four percent, said to be one of the biggest hikes ever. The four-percent increase in the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula will mean about an eight-percent local budget increase for DC Public Schools.

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Girl Scouts want to protect little brown bats.

BY L ILY M ARTIN In 1838, Georgetown University sold the school’s 272 enslaved persons to plantations in Louisiana to ward off financial ruin. It was not until 2016 that the institution began a series of reparative actions in response to student and community outcry at the evaded history.

In that year, admissions preference was granted to descendants of the 272.

Photos of Donna Comeaux's family. Donna is a GU272 descendant.

Available to students of Photo by Claire Vail. college age and older, the preference gives the descendants certain priority in the The presence of the GU272 descendants admissions process but does not guarantee has not shrunk since last year. Instead, it has acceptance. While it was a big step in the taken on a role of advocacy, education and right direction, it did not satisfy everyone in outreach. Online resources like the GU272 the Georgetown community.

Descendants Association homepage, By 2019, the Georgetown University gu272.net, which shares regular updates Student Association and the GU272 on the descendant students and the group Advocacy Team put together a plan for at large, have emerged to make the further reparative action. The referendum issue accessible to those seeking more they proposed would add a fee of $27.20 to information. each student’s yearly tuition for the benefit The GU272 Memory Project website, of the descendants. April of that year saw gu272.americanancestors.org, features a 58-percent student voter turnout, with 66 historical content that traces what is percent backing the referendum. It is the considered the “best-documented mass sell first fund of its kind proposed in the United of enslaved people in the United States.”

States, displaying majority support for the It provides history on the group, lineage continuation of reparations. charts for those who might be interested Direct action was not taken on the in the genealogy of the 272 and a special referendum when it reached the university’s search engine to search for an ancestor if board of directors that fall. Instead, a plan someone believes they have a connection. of support for projects and groups in the Short clips of descendants speaking about descendant community was established. their experiences, as well as clips from the The plan includes a $400,000 fund, not to perspectives of historians and genealogists, are be created out of a separate tuition fee, that also featured on the site. Additional resources will be used to support descendants both at and familial descriptions are accessible the university and outside it. through the data shared on the page.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19 ANC 2E: SPECIAL MEETING

GBA/GEORGETOWN At 6 p.m., the Georgetown-Burleith- MAIN STREET Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission will hold a special meeting on proposed changes to D.C.’s 2006 Comprehensive Plan and consider a resolution at Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW, second-floor Heritage Room. For details, visit anc2e.com.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24 CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN

Going National: Bowser Endorses Bloomberg Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg was endorsetd by Mayor Muriel Bowser Jan. 30 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street NE during a political rally. Bowser is co-chair of Bloomberg’s national campaign. Photo by Bill Starrels.

CAG will hold a meeting on public safety at the Ritz-Carlton, 3100 South St. NW. The program, from 7 to 8 p.m., will be preceded by a reception at 6:30 p.m. For details, visit cagtown.org.

The February reception for the Georgetown Business Association and Georgetown Main Street will be at Harper Macaw, 2920 M St. NW, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. For details, visit georgetownassociationdc.org or georgetownmainstreet.com.

TUESDAY, MARCH 2 ANC 2E

The Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW, second-floor Heritage Room. For details, visit anc2e. com.

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Brokers Check In Throughout the year, The Georgetowner seeks comments from real estate professionals on the state of the market.

How would you describe Washington, D.C., in terms of national housing trends for 2020?

Washington, D.C.’s market has been strong for more than 10 years, but I expect it will continue rising to the top nationally.

What I see in the D.C. Capital Region’s future real estate market is buyer confidence. It trickles down beginning with many cranes in the air and major construction, which is a sign that the powers that be are investing in the future of the city, which will expand into its bedroom communities of Virginia and Maryland. Buyer confidence jump-started just a few years ago as Amazon chose the Capital Region for HQ2. At Washington Fine Properties, this 2020 buyer confidence level is documented by our best January ever in all price ranges.

— William F.X. Moody, Managing Partner, Washington Fine Properties, LLC Inventory shortages and rising prices have been the trend nationwide, and we’re experiencing the same here in the nation’s 10 FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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capital. In the Capital Region as a whole, we ended last year down 40 percent in homes for sale compared to the year prior, according to Long & Foster’s 2019 Year in Review Capital Region Market Report, and we don’t expect inventory to increase much this coming year. Likewise, prices have been rising, and D.C. in particular has seen double-digit growth in median sale prices, according to our latest Market Minute.

— Lonnie Plaster, Senior Vice President/ Regional Manager, Washington, D.C./ Montgomery County, Long & Foster Real Estate

at high numbers, but I wouldn’t categorize them as the sky is the limit.

— William F.X. Moody It’s supply and demand, and with limited properties on the market, sellers have the advantage. As inventory goes up — whether with new residential developments coming to completion or owners making a move — those prices will moderate. Most real estate analysts predict stable price growth across the country this year, and D.C.’s likely to see the same.

— Lonnie Plaster

It seems that the sky’s the limit when it comes to home prices in Washington, D.C. Is that, in fact, true? And when will too much become too much?

What is the one crucial thing buyers and sellers misunderstand about the 2020 real estate housing market?

Not sure I agree with this beyond a few ultra-ultra-luxury sales that occurred on Virginia’s Gold Coast. Beyond those few waterfront sales, the remaining ultra-luxury sales over $10 million that have occurred in recent months frankly represent properties that have been for sale for several months and did not achieve asking prices or very close to them. In summary, we are fortunate in seeing an upswing in ultra-luxury sales

The idea that Washington’s housing market is transformed in an election year — particularly if the party in charge changes — is a lingering misconception. People who move to the D.C. area to work in politics typically stay here, but a presidential election year can influence the market.

Often, you’ll see downward pressure on consumer confidence in the fall before the election, because people don’t know what to

expect in the next four years. That’ll often lead to a slowdown in sales in the fall and then an increase in December.

— Lonnie Plaster I think the one crucial misunderstanding buyers and sellers have in 2020, and frankly have been struggling with for a few years now, is that there have to be documented credentials justifying the value of a home purchase. Whether it be recent sales in similar price ranges and areas, units sold or comparable house sales, all of these factors contribute to documented value information. For the first eight years in the early 2000s, those credentials weren’t as necessary. Buyers would pay numbers because they were confident it would be worth more next year either way. What we experienced was emotional sales: “I love the house,” “It works perfectly for our family,” etc. That has been gone for more than 12 years now, and it’s our job as realtors to help buyers and sellers still feel at peace with their investment. Most of the emotions of real estate purchases today have pushed aside by financial prudence.

— William F.X. Moody

2019 Sales: Highest to Lowest FROM WASHINGTON FINE PROPERTIES ADDRESS

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The Sky’s the Limit HOW HIGH CAN HOUSING PRICES GO? DESPITE COMPETITION FROM UP-AND-COMING NEIGHBORHOODS, A GEORGETOWN ADDRESS REMAINS AMONG THE MOST COVETED

BY SUS A N BODIKE R Five hundred thousand dollars doesn’t go as far as it used to. Neither does a million.

According to Urban Turf, the median sale price for a home in Georgetown is $1.2 million, making it the fifth highest in the city. We’re number three in cost per square foot: $740.

In 2019, sale prices ranged from $9,500,000 for a historic 8,100-square-foot single-family home on Dumbarton Street to $209,900 for a studio on Q Street. Nine boasted sale prices of $5 million and above, while the majority occupied the $1.2-to-5-million territory.

It’s not likely that Georgetown will lose its luster any time soon, but with so many empty storefronts, can it still hold on to its appeal? And what about climate change? What impact will increased flooding have on property values and livability on our low-lying streets and waterfront?

Watch this space.

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3123 Dumbarton St NW 1224 30th St NW 3306 O St NW 3150 South St NW #Ph1D 3301 N St NW 3322 O St NW 3150 South St NW #Ph2D 1671 31st St NW 2720 Dumbarton St NW 3026 P St NW 1675 31st St NW 3263 N St NW 1609 31st St NW 3319 Prospect St NW 3114 N St NW 3317 Prospect St NW 3150 South St NW #2F 3330 Reservoir Rd NW 1409 29th St NW 3127 P St NW 2735 P St NW 1626 29th St NW 2804 N St NW 3405 O St NW 1609 35th St NW 3005 O St NW 1308 29th St NW 3029 O St NW 3329 Prospect St NW #4 1612 28th St NW 3329 Prospect St NW #1 1408 35th St NW 1613 35th St NW 1332 29th St NW 3323 R St NW 3251 Prospect St NW #402 3403 O St NW 3258 O St NW 2905 N St NW 3417 R St NW 1232 30th St NW 3527 Winfield Ln NW 3114 Dumbarton St NW 2815 Dumbarton St NW 3303 Water St NW #5M 3324 Reservoir Rd NW 2525 P St NW 2803 Q St NW 1622 33rd St NW 1557 33rd St NW 3320 Reservoir Rd NW 1411 29th St NW 3232 O St NW 1516 33rd St NW 1215 30th St NW 1414 29th St NW 3326 Prospect St NW 1423 33rd St NW 3119 N St NW 3315 P St NW 3127 O St NW 3330 Dent Pl NW 1323 28th St NW 1724 35th St NW 2818 N St NW 3657 Winfield Ln NW 3128 N St NW 3128 N St NW 3027 O St NW 3656 Winfield Ln NW 3344 Prospect St NW 1236 28th St NW 1646 32nd St NW 1236 28th St NW 2715 Dumbarton St NW 1652 29th St NW 2811 N St NW 1213 30th St NW 3282 N St NW 3661 Winfield Ln NW 1231 30th St NW 3547 Winfield Ln NW 3415 P St NW 3100 N St NW #6A 3134 Q St NW 3334 Reservoir Rd NW 3600 Reservoir Rd NW 3420 R St NW 3011 Dent Pl NW 1416 35th St NW 3131 O St NW 3310 Dent Pl NW 1627 34th St NW 3263 O St NW 2821 N St NW

LIST PRICE $9,500,000 $8,950,000 $8,500,000 $7,500,000 $7,450,000 $7,000,000 $6,900,000 $5,800,000 $5,500,000 $5,450,000 $5,100,000 $4,999,999 $4,975,000 $4,700,000 $4,700,000 $4,495,000 $4,250,000 $3,995,000 $3,750,000 $3,500,000 $3,495,000 $3,250,000 $3,199,000 $3,000,000 $2,999,999 $2,995,000 $2,995,000 $2,950,000 $2,899,000 $2,750,000 $2,749,000 $2,695,000 $2,599,000 $2,595,000 $2,550,000 $2,500,000 $2,499,000 $2,495,000 $2,449,000 $2,425,000 $2,395,000 $2,300,000 $2,275,000 $2,250,000 $2,250,000 $2,199,000 $2,195,000 $2,195,000 $2,195,000 $2,155,000 $2,099,900 $2,095,000 $1,999,000 $1,995,000 $1,995,000 $1,995,000 $1,995,000 $1,980,000 $1,980,000 $1,950,000 $1,849,000 $1,799,000 $1,795,000 $1,795,000 $1,795,000 $1,795,000 $1,700,000 $1,700,000 $1,699,000 $1,699,000 $1,695,000 $1,695,000 $1,695,000 $1,695,000 $1,650,000 $1,649,000 $1,645,000 $1,600,000 $1,599,000 $1,599,000 $1,550,000 $1,550,000 $1,550,000 $1,525,000 $1,500,000 $1,499,000 $1,499,000 $1,485,000 $1,480,000 $1,470,000 $1,450,000 GMG, $1,395,000 $1,395,000 $1,350,000 $1,350,000

CLOSE DATE August 1 December 20 October 31 September 3 February 8 November 4 November 13 December 17 January 2 August 16 February 25 March 21 June 18 December 16 January 17 July 31 November 30 June 27 November 4 June 12 August 23 February 26 August 6 December 16 February 28 January 3 August 29 February 28 November 4 November 12 August 23 May 15 May 11 December 16 April 30 June 17 May 2 August 23 September 5 August 30 December 18 November 18 April 8 August 15 January 15 November 7 January 4 February 7 September 13 September 25 March 18 December 24 September 25 May 14 May 13 February 19 December 20 December 13 March 22 May 3 October 16 January 15 November 19 June 30 January 3 July 8 June 30 June 19 September 16 November 12 November 4 October 28 July 15 May 10 May 16 July 24 April 22 November 15 November 5 September 27 December 3 July 23 May 17 July 25 September 4 October 23 May 2 February 11 June 25 February 27 April 19 INC. December FEBRUARY 31 May 10 April 8 May 10

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$9,115,000 $8,750,000 $7,700,000 $6,500,000 $6,800,000 $7,000,000 $6,500,000 $5,800,000 $5,125,000 $4,800,000 $4,900,000 $4,900,000 $4,875,000 $4,360,000 $4,800,000 $4,350,000 $4,250,000 $3,825,000 $3,550,000 $3,548,333 $3,495,000 $3,190,000 $2,900,000 $2,900,000 $2,870,000 $2,750,000 $2,700,000 $2,800,000 $2,800,000 $2,650,000 $2,650,000 $3,000,000 $2,400,000 $2,625,000 $2,450,000 $2,300,000 $2,325,000 $2,350,000 $2,449,000 $2,425,000 $2,395,000 $2,220,000 $2,200,000 $2,140,000 $2,000,000 $2,150,000 $2,150,000 $2,195,000 $2,195,000 $1,880,000 $2,100,000 $1,875,000 $1,775,000 $1,900,000 $1,915,000 $1,995,000 $1,995,000 $1,920,000 $1,632,000 $1,825,000 $1,849,000 $1,710,000 $1,750,000 $1,850,000 $1,800,000 $1,770,000 $1,700,000 $1,700,000 $1,680,000 $1,715,000 $1,700,000 $1,610,000 $1,695,000 $1,645,000 $1,663,000 $1,590,000 $1,600,000 $1,400,000 $1,565,000 $1,525,760 $1,400,000 $1,600,000 $1,435,000 $1,550,000 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $1,470,000 $1,400,000 $1,480,000 $1,420,000 $1,425,000 2020 11 $1,350,000 $1,395,000 $1,350,000 $1,300,000

3100 N St NW #6A 3134 Q St NW 3334 Reservoir Rd NW 3600 Reservoir Rd NW 3420 R St NW ADDRESS 3011 Dent Pl NW 3123 35th Dumbarton 1416 St NW St NW 1224 O 30th St NW 3131 St NW 3306 Dent O St NW 3310 Pl NW 3150 34th SouthStStNW NW #Ph1D 1627 3301 O N St 3263 St NW NW 3322 N O St St NW NW 2821 3150 33rd SouthStStNW NW #Ph2D 1411 1671 Dent 31st StPlNW 3021 NW 2720 R Dumbarton 3018 St NW #1/2St NW 3026 34th P St NW 1243 St NW 1675 Cambridge 31st St NW Pl NW 3033 3263 29th N St NW 1229 St NW 1609 29th 31st St 1226 St NW NW 3319 Q Prospect St NW 2516 St NW #Q201 3114 N St NW 1524-1526 32nd St NW 3317 NW Prospect St NW 3204 Reservoir Rd NW 3150 N South St NW #2F 3413 St NW 3330 32nd Reservoir Rd NW 1600 St NW 1409 O 29th St NW 3408 St NW 3127 35th P St NW 1409 St NW 2735 O P St 2728 StNW NW 1626 Reservoir 29th St NW 3417 Rd NW 2804 27th N St NW 1339 St NW 3405 32nd O St NW 1654 St NW 1609 29th 35th St NW 1215 3005 33rd O St NW 1627 St NW 1308 30th 29th St NW #B11 1527 3029 Grace O St NW 3210 St NW #304 3329 27th Prospect St NW #4 1335 St NW 1612 33rd 28th St NW 1521 3329 Q Prospect 3313 St NW St NW #1 1408 Jones 35th StCt NW 3254 NW 1613 34th 35th St NW 1649 1332 P 29th St NW 2439 St NW 3323 27th R St NW 1342 St NW Prospect St NW #402#412 3251 NW Prospect St NW 3403 34th O St NW 1653 St NW 3258 28th O St NW 1345 St NW 2905 32nd N St NW 1664 St NW 3417 34th R St NW 1512 St NW 1015 33rd St NW #608 3251 Prospect St NW #318 2500 Q St NW #704 1045 31st St NW #505 1523 27th St NW 3210 Grace St NW #307 1077 30th St NW #306 3534 S St NW 1337 28th St NW 1516 26th St NW 1015 33rd St NW #703 1015 33rd St NW #505 1257 35th St NW 1562 33rd St NW 1077 30th St NW #409 1072 Paper Mill Ct NW 2735 Olive St NW #1 1318 35th St NW #3 3241 N St NW #3 1038 Paper Mill Ct NW #1038 3020 R St NW #3 3010 R St NW #2 1077 30th St NW #303 3210 Grace St NW #208 1057 Paper Mill Ct NW #1057 1014 Paper Mill Ct NW 3042 R St NW #1/2 3016 R St NW #3 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #1011 3026 R St NW #2 5 Pomander Walk NW 1023 Potomac St NW #1023P 1234 Eton Ct NW 1 Pomander Walk NW 1040 Paper Mill Ct NW #1040 3020 Dent Pl NW #32W 3022 R St NW #3 3251 Prospect St NW #310 3299 K St NW #402 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #3022 2500 Q St NW #413 2111 Wisconsin Ave NW #205 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #505 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #2006 3239 N St NW #11 3225 Grace St NW #109 3100 N St NW #2 3222 Cherry Hill Ln NW #B1 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #1021 2516 Q St NW #Q109 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #1012 3237 N St NW #16 1045 31st St NW #103 2500 Q St NW #727 2500 Q St NW #601 2603 O St NW #1 2500 Q St NW #740 1080 Wisconsin Ave NW #1004 2500 Q St NW #109 2500 Q St NW #416 12 12, 2020 2516FEBRUARY Q St NW #Q206 3120 R St NW #206 2500 Q St NW #412 2500 Q St NW #127

$1,525,000 $1,500,000 $1,499,000 $1,499,000 $1,485,000 LIST PRICE $1,480,000

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$9,500,000 $1,470,000 $8,950,000 $1,450,000 $8,500,000 $1,395,000 $7,500,000 $1,395,000 $7,450,000 $1,350,000 $7,000,000 $1,350,000 $6,900,000 $1,350,000 $5,800,000 $1,348,000 $5,500,000 $1,299,000 $5,450,000 $1,295,000 $5,100,000 $1,275,000 $4,999,999 $1,275,000 $4,975,000 $1,275,000 $4,700,000 $1,255,000 $4,700,000 $1,250,000 $4,495,000 $1,250,000 $4,250,000 $1,249,000 $3,995,000 $1,249,000 $3,750,000 $1,225,000 $3,500,000 $1,210,000 $3,495,000 $1,199,000 $3,250,000 $1,199,000 $3,199,000 $1,195,000 $3,000,000 $1,195,000 $2,999,999 $1,175,000 $2,995,000 $1,135,000 $2,995,000 $1,125,000 $2,950,000 $1,100,000 $2,899,000 $1,095,000 $2,750,000 $1,049,000 $2,749,000 $1,045,000 $2,695,000 $1,035,000 $2,599,000 $995,000 $2,595,000 $975,000 $2,550,000 $969,500 $2,500,000 $945,000 $2,499,000 $900,000 $2,495,000 $900,000 $2,449,000 $899,000 $2,425,000 $899,000 $899,000 $875,000 $875,000 $875,000 $869,000 $850,000 $850,000 $849,900 $837,000 $819,000 $799,000 $785,000 $785,000 $780,000 $775,000 $770,000 $759,000 $749,000 $739,000 $730,000 $710,000 $699,900 $699,900 $685,000 $685,000 $679,000 $677,000 $675,000 $675,000 $675,000 $665,000 $664,000 $659,000 $645,000 $645,000 $635,000 $625,000 $625,000 $595,000 $580,000 $560,000 $549,900 $529,000 $514,900 $514,900 $499,900 $499,555 $499,000 $497,800 $489,000 $475,000 $474,900 $455,000 $450,000 $449,000 $449,000 $449,000 $425,000 $399,109 $399,000 INC. $399,000 $387,500 $380,000 $375,000

July 25 September 4 October 23 May 2 February 11 CLOSE DATE June 25 August27 1 February December April 20 19 October 31 December September 3 May 10 February April 8 November 4 May 10 November May 13 14 December October 17 25 January March 2 1 August June 16 14 February October 25 31 March June 21 11 June April 18 30 December October16 4 January July 17 12 July 31 January 25 November January30 7 June 27 December 30 November 4 October 15 June July 12 25 August 23 September 5 February 26 11 August15 6 November December May16 8 February April 28 10 January 3 June 11 August 29 September 16 February 28 September 30 November 4 October 28 November March12 4 August 23 October 3 May 15 June 10 May 11 January December April 16 19 April June30 4 June June17 5 May15 2 September August July 23 31 September November 5 1 August 30 August 27 September 9 April 26 August 20 November 21 December 19 April 3 October 4 July 19 August 2 July 15 May 8 March 22 January 11 October 21 April 5 March 22 October 10 April 24 June 17 June 19 December 6 March 28 October 25 May 22 June 12 October 22 May 13 December 2 April 22 August 22 October 15 November 25 February 4 January 18 December 31 April 26 February 12 February 15 October 1 June 24 March 21 December 13 December 16 June 16 February 7 August 30 May 16 April 30 October 17 July 18 July 19 September 30 July 15 June 24 May 21 April 23 January 31 March 25 September 26 April 24 June 26 October 15 January 4

$1,550,000 $1,500,000 $1,500,000 $1,470,000 $1,400,000 CLOSE PRICE $1,480,000 $9,115,000 $1,420,000 $8,750,000 $1,425,000 $7,700,000 $1,350,000 $6,500,000 $1,395,000 $6,800,000 $1,350,000 $7,000,000 $1,300,000 $6,500,000 $1,430,000 $5,800,000 $1,330,000 $5,125,000 $1,212,500 $4,800,000 $1,300,000 $4,900,000 $1,275,000 $4,900,000 $1,275,000 $4,875,000 $1,275,000 $4,360,000 $1,230,000 $4,800,000 $1,250,000 $4,350,000 $1,250,000 $4,250,000 $1,225,000 $3,825,000 $1,110,000 $3,550,000 $1,200,000 $3,548,333 $1,210,000 $3,495,000 $1,125,000 $3,190,000 $1,100,000 $2,900,000 $1,125,000 $2,900,000 $1,185,000 $2,870,000 $1,100,000 $2,750,000 $1,140,000 $2,700,000 $1,066,875 $2,800,000 $1,100,000 $2,800,000 $1,025,000 $2,650,000 $975,000 $2,650,000 $977,500 $3,000,000 $1,035,000 $2,400,000 $955,000 $2,625,000 $975,000 $2,450,000 $957,500 $2,300,000 $920,000 $2,325,000 $895,000 $2,350,000 $890,000 $2,449,000 $865,000 $2,425,000 $899,000 $854,000 $840,000 $865,000 $865,000 $888,000 $830,000 $850,000 $910,000 $837,000 $819,000 $815,000 $770,000 $785,000 $780,000 $775,000 $760,000 $759,500 $725,000 $730,000 $715,000 $685,000 $680,000 $690,000 $668,000 $681,000 $696,000 $677,000 $675,000 $675,000 $700,000 $650,000 $675,000 $624,000 $640,000 $635,000 $635,000 $580,000 $612,500 $595,000 $560,000 $545,000 $540,000 $529,000 $505,000 $519,900 $535,000 $490,000 $485,000 $490,000 $480,500 $476,000 $474,900 $453,000 $448,000 $449,000 $443,000 $447,500 $425,000 $385,000 $390,000 $442,500 $383,625 $375,000 $365,000

Theo Adamstein is flanked by Donna Martin and Debran McClean.

Photo by Tony Powell.

At Home With Theo Adamstein W EL C OME TO OUR N EW A N D O C C A S I O N A L COL UMN PROFIL ING T HE MO V ER S A N D S HA K ER S , DESIGNERS AND STAGER S , BUI L D ER S A N D A GEN T S OF D.C. REAL ESTATE

BY SU SAN BOD IKER Theo Adamstein of TTR Sotheby’s is a true Renaissance man. An architect, a photographer, a serial entrepreneur and a real estate professional, he brings an artist’s eye and a builder’s sensibility to every project. A graduate of the University of Cape Town and Cooper Union, Adamstein has 30 years of experience in all aspects of residential design and new construction.

During his tenure in Washington, he has co-founded an award-winning architectural and design firm and run a leading high-end photo processing lab. He is also a supporter of several arts organizations, a passion he shares with his team.

We recently spoke with Adamstein — in his sunny new office overlooking the Potomac — about his new venture, Theo & Partners.

a place of knowledge and a commitment to achieving the most favorable results.

Although design informs our decisions, we’re working as real estate professionals first, not designers. It’s never about drawings, ideas or execution. It’s about how all those things add value to sell or transform a space.

In your past life, you’ve been an architect and a visual artist. Does that change how you “see” real estate?

How does this work exactly? Can you share a story?

THEO ADAMSTEIN | Without question.

I’ve always thought about real estate even when I was an architect. Clients and friends were always asking me for advice about buying or selling their homes, renovating them, pricing them, designing them. So when I joined TTR Sotheby’s, all my design, architecture, construction and photography experience came together in a serendipitous way.

How does that translate to Theo & Partners?

ADAMSTEIN | It’s based on the same principle. The entire team has extensive experience in architecture and design, which allows us to create the best approach to presenting a particular house. It gives us — and our clients — the confidence to make the best choices, whether they’re major renovations or small adjustments, like lighting or landscaping. They trust our judgment because they know it comes from

Who’s on the team?

ADAMSTEIN | Our core group includes Donna Martin, a native Washingtonian, entrepreneur and trained interior designer, who applies her business savvy to all real estate transactions, and Debran McClean, from North Carolina, where she studied art history and interior design and now has two decades of experience as a realtor in the D.C. market.

ADAMSTEIN | Here’s a recent example — a real Cinderella story. We were retained to sell a home that had been in the family for a long time. It needed tremendous help.

Little had been done with it, and, after the death of the owner, they just wanted it sold.

We worked with organizers and stagers, repainted and cleaned and utterly transformed the property. We gave it a spirit that clearly resonated with buyers. There were 50 visitors at the first open house and it went under contract almost immediately.

That’s a case of small-ish changes making a huge difference and how we are reimagining the process of buying and acquiring homes.

Theo & Partners assists clients with buying and selling homes and condominiums in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. It is affiliated with TTR Sotheby’s International Realty, a global network of more than 1,000 offices in 72 countries. For more information, visit theoandpartners.com.

A. Michael Sullivan. Courtesy Washington Fine Properties.

A. Michael Sullivan Jr., 1942-2020 Arthur Michael Sullivan Jr. died peacefully at home on Feb. 1 in Palm Beach, Florida. He was 77.

Graduating from St. Anselm’s College and the American University School of Law, he enjoyed a brief government career as an attorney with the Small Business Administration in Washington, D.C., before entering the world of real estate in Georgetown. He was the principal at Michael Sullivan, Inc., and moved to Washington Fine Properties later in his career.

He was happily married for 27 years to Beverly Bissell Sullivan, who predeceased him in 1999. They made their homes in Georgetown, Newport, Key West and Palm Beach, where they supported local organizations working for the betterment of their communities.

Michael waged a long and courageous battle against Parkinson’s disease.

He is survived by his cousins, Jean E. Sullivan of Newport, Rhode Island, and Paul J. Sullivan of Manchester-by-theSea, Massachusetts. He was the son of Margaret Salisbury Sullivan and Arthur Michael Sullivan Sr. of Providence, Rhode Island. His brother, Peter F. Sullivan, also of Providence, predeceased him in 2009.

His last words were: “We won!” Michael, as he was known to all, went out a winner.

He will be laid to rest beside his wife in Delaplane, Virginia, on Feb. 18 at a private funeral. Memorial services, to be announced, will be in Palm Beach, Georgetown and Newport.

Sources: Newport Daily News and legacy.com.

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On hand to welcome the new business were Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Council member Brianne Nadeau (D-Ward 1) — along with Capital City Care’s store manager Yuri Lee and Mid-Atlantic Market Director George DeNardo.

Norton noted that “Capital City Care is a medical marijuana provider licensed to dispense to qualified patients in the District and provides an invaluable service for the residents who have found that medical marijuana provides them the most relief for their needs.” She continued: “It is beyond unreasonable that congressional interference keeps only the District of Columbia from commercializing recreational marijuana while all other jurisdictions are free to do so.

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“The drug often can’t be purchased with a credit card, and insurance companies don’t cover the cost,” pointed out Mark Seagraves of NBC4 News. “A total of 33 states have legalized marijuana for either recreational or medical uses, but other laws need to

Yuri Lee of Capital City Care and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. Georgetowner photo. be passed in order to improve consumers’ access.”

“It’s not the least expensive thing to purchase, so I have to carry cash. My last purchase was $95,” former Council member and medical marijuana user Yvette Alexander told NBC4. “It’s inconvenient. I would like to see the day when we can charge this like everything else, like your pharmaceutical drugs.”

“It’s the banking laws, from a federal level,” explained DeNardo. “So, the banks are federally insured, and since this is against federal regulations most credit cards will not accept medical cannabis as a valid transaction.”

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The 11th annual Intersections Festival, which “presents work that impacts our society, culture, and world,” will run from Feb. 19 to March 1 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street NE. The festival will feature music, dance, theater, film, spoken word and comedy, with highlights including a launch party with Malinda Reese, a conversation with Laura Coates, a youth summit, a performance of the oratorio “Considering Michael Shepard” and a screening of the 1925 silent film “The Lost World” with live accompaniment.

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Gus Casely-Hayford. Photo by Franko Khoury.

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The National Building Museum, housed in the Pension Building, designed in 1881 by Montgomery Meigs, closed for renovations on Dec. 2 and will reopen in March with the exhibition “Alan Karchmer: The Architects’ Photographer” and, from March 26 to 29, the Architecture & Design Film Festival: D.C. The project includes replacement of the deteriorated concrete floor of the Great Hall and construction of a new visitor center and a ground-floor classroom. The museum will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2020.

After two years as director of the National Museum of African Art, Gus Casely-Hayford will leave the Smithsonian Institution in March to become inaugural director of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s V&A East, a museum and research center under construction in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on the East London waterfront, site of the 2012 Summer Olympics. V&A East will open in 2023 with a two-year-long exhibition co-curated by the Smithsonian, representing a less extensive partnership than originally announced.

The Kreeger Museum, a modern art collection in a Philip Johnson-designed building on Foxhall Road NW, named Danielle O’Steen curator and promoted Joanna Baker to registrar. An independent curator since 2009, specializing in postwar and contemporary art, O’Steen has a B.A. from Colby College, an M.A. from George

Washington University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Baker, who has a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an M.A. from Georgetown, is currently enrolled in GW’s museum collections management program.

FREER, SACKLER GALLERIES REBRANDED

The Smithsonian’s attached Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have rebranded as the National Museum of Asian Art. Since 1923, the Freer Gallery has displayed Charles Lang Freer’s collection, including not only Asian art but paintings by Whistler and his American contemporaries and Whistler’s Peacock Room. Its mostly underground neighbor, containing Arthur M. Sackler’s Asian art collection and special exhibition space, opened in 1987, the year Sackler died and nine years before his family’s pharmaceutical firm began to market OxyContin. Many institutions’ recognition of Sackler family philanthropy has been criticized due to its links to the opioid crisis.

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BY STEPH AN IE GR EEN Patrons at Georgetown’s Cafe Bonaparte, at 1522 Wisconsin Ave. NW, have savored its cozy continental vibe and assortment of crepes for 16 years.

But after a recent renovation, the eatery is doubling down on its Frenchness by eightysixing the crepes, according to new chef Martin Senoville, a Paris native who ran restaurants in his native city before moving to Washington last summer.

Senoville tells us that the new Cafe Bonaparte, now called Lutèce by Bonaparte, will mirror the more authentic French eateries one sees on the streets of Paris.

And that, apparently, means adieu to the crepe — unless it’s a Crepe Suzette.

Lutèce, by the way, is the ancient name for the City of Light, and the moniker of a former French restaurant in Manhattan, frequented by the smart set.

This new iteration means a more Parisian price tag, as the ingredients and wines that Senoville uses are imported from France, driving up menu costs. This seems to play into the restaurant’s new goal to be more aspirational.

In addition to overhauling the cafe’s menu and name, the place also has a new look, complete with an open kitchen. It’s quite charming to see Senoville hunched over, sprinkling fromage on his dishes with such Gallic intensity.

This is the kind of place Julia Child would love — but what about those regular customers who would prefer a ground beef crepe over escargots with black garlic cream?

“It was time for a rebirth,” explains Omar Popal, who manages the cafe, along with the Berliner on K Street and Lapis on Columbia Road.

Popal says he recruited Senoville because he wanted Cafe Bonaparte to truly reflect the fine Parisian dining he experiences when traveling to Europe. There was only one way to do that, and that was to hire a

Chef Martin Senoville.

French chef with a French cuisine pedigree.

Popal let Senoville make the necessary changes.

“When we started Cafe Bonaparte, we told people it was Paris without the airfare.

Now we think we really have that,” he says.

What about those crepes? Did they really have to go? His response: “We’re thinking about opening a crepe eatery next door, but for now we’re happy with the new menu.”

The fries, Popal assures us, are even better under Senoville. And — in a nod to mass appeal — the menu has been updated with a burger.

Breakfast and lunch will still be served, but dinner will likely remain the target mealtime. The main courses include salmon with leeks and sorrel sauce, duck breast with sweet potato purée and lobster French toast. On the appetizer list are foie gras and hand-cut beef tartare.

French onion soup and avocado toast are also offered as starters. The latter is available for breakfast, along with warm croissants and brioche.

The Cafe Bonaparte sweet crepes have been replaced by a decadent melange of elegant desserts like coconut and passion fruit mousse.

Popal says the cafe will change its menu seasonally. He hopes longtime fans will give the new Bonaparte a chance, even for sentimental reasons.

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KITTY KELLEY BOOK CLUB

‘The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties’ SOLID WRITING AND RESEARCH ASIDE, THIS JEREMIAD ABOUT OUR CHANGING NATIONAL LANDSCAPE REVEALS THE AUTHOR’S BITTERNESS R EVIEWE D BY KIT T Y K E LLE Y In the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment illuminated the world of ideas throughout Europe, stretching as far as America, where Thomas Jefferson adopted some of its ideals when writing the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps Christopher Caldwell aspired to achieve similar status by calling his book “The Age of Entitlement.”

In it, he explores the last five decades of a U.S. cultural upheaval, spurred, he claims, by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and

the Voting Rights Act of 1965, legislation he sees as “a model for overthrowing every tradition of American life.”

Caldwell’s revolution starts with the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, the event that propelled JFK’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, to initiate civil rights legislation. “[This] ideology, especially when it hardened into a body of legislation, became, most unexpectedly, the model for an entire new system of constantly churning political reform,” he writes.

With facile writing and impressive research, Caldwell examines his premise in detail, hitting the era’s hot-button issues: abortion, affirmative action, busing, Robert Bork, Gloria Steinem, women’s rights and gay marriage. He divides his book into seven sections: race, sex, war, debt, diversity, winners (African Americans, women and gays) and losers (white men).

Each of these sections contains bite-size subsections arguing aspects of Caldwell’s premise that “civil rights had been sold to the American public” under false pretenses, causing incalculable wreckage to society. He writes: “The new system for overthrowing the traditions that hindered black people became the model for overthrowing every tradition in American life, starting with the roles of men and women.”

As a conservative, white, male graduate of Harvard, Caldwell writes to the right, occasionally to the left and sometimes swerves center as he cites lawsuit after

lawsuit to make his points, one of which actually suggests that maybe Southern segregationists were correct all along.

His book, which relies on much of the conservative journalism he’s published in the Financial Times, the National Review and the Weekly Standard, reads like the lamentation of an anguished man who sees his world slowly crumbling beneath him.

Not all conservatives will applaud, particularly those who marched in the Reagan revolution. Caldwell lambasts Ronald Reagan on the issue of “mass immigration,” which, he maintains, “stands perhaps as [the president’s] emblematic failure. Reagan threw open the floodgates to international immigration while stirringly proclaiming a determination to slam them shut. Almost all of Reaganism was like that.”

What Caldwell grieves, progressives might celebrate, even the messiness of change and the discomfort of adjustment.

He rails against political correctness, considers it an affront to have to call black people African Americans and resents the federal holiday dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. He lambasts his alma mater for ruling in 2016 that professors presiding over Harvard’s undergraduate houses be called “faculty deans” rather than “house masters,” sarcastically wondering if “kids would be unable to distinguish their house master from a slave-driving antebellum overseer.”

Strange that a skilled writer like Caldwell, who lives by the power of words, can’t acknowledge the degree of civility Harvard conferred with its small change.

The author becomes particularly overheated when he claims that, by embracing political correctness, Americans have “inadvertently voted themselves a second constitution,” and that this second

constitution, with its P.C. laws — “nurtured by elites in all walks of life” — is what currently prevails. He ridicules diversity as if it’s nothing more than a Mercedes-Benz, “a marker of money, class and power.”

He even chides CNN founder Ted Turner for ordering his company’s personnel to refer to things outside the U.S. as “international” rather than “foreign,” ignoring that “international” suggests a broader, more cosmopolitan embrace than “foreign,” which conjures all things strange, unfamiliar and alien. (That last sentence probably consigns me to the P.C. circle of hell.)

While much of this provocative book — with its conservative critique of the last 55 years in America — is interesting, it never rises above the author’s anger or overcomes his fury with the people of color, women and gays, who’ve challenged the system and won the changes that have rattled Caldwell’s world. He vents his spleen at a society that is not standing still, remaining soldered to tradition, but is instead, in his view, descending into chaos and leaving white men grasping the shreds of what once was.

More polemic than panacea, “The Age of Entitlement” is one man’s screed against change. As such, it offers no soothing balm to the gloom it delivers.

Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several numberone New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynasty.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.”

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The chairs of the gala are Hillary and Tom Baltimore and Erika and A. Scott Bolden. N Street Village is a nonprofit that empowers homeless and low-income women to claim their highest quality of life through shelter and a variety of programming. Marriott Marquis. Contact Stuart Allen at sallen@ nstreetvillage.org or 202-939-2085.

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CHILDREN’S NATIONAL’S A VINTAGE AFFAIR The Board of Visitors of Children’s National Health System will host this opportunity for wine lovers to taste fine wines and enjoy elegant cuisine while bidding on fine wines and experiences. Proceeds support the board’s annual grants and major gifts programs. Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.

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