GEORGETOWN'S HOUSES OFFER AN UNUSUAL ALLURE TO WALKING SPECTATORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200270004-3
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 30, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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Georgetown's Houses
Offer an Unusual Allure,
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To Walking Spectators
By John B. Willnwnn
Real Estate Editor
EORGETOWN may be
G something of a state of
mind but it's also a square
mile of real estate, a place
where selling prices "have
never been higher."
A tiny house on Rerblr
rd. recently brought $30.01 to
the owner. But if you'r0 1, qk-
ing for 3 bedrooms in 2
baths, then you've joined the
majority party and must .ex-
nett to pay a price that se s
walk around what once
w s the waterfront district on
this side of the Potomac
'c be fascinating to anyone
h strong1 legs and sharp
e s. An ap reciationof peo-
and placs accentuates the
f . Thes'e's where Presi-l
t Kennedy formerly lived
9317 N at. iw.) ... that's the
f ed Tudor Place estate of
ead Peter (on Q between
A 32d) .- .. the Auchin-
ds are doing over that
theistic Chinese-stlye house 'On j
29th st. is Genevieve Wimsatt's~
. ][)call Acheson owns that
one . . . Pennsylania's Gov.
Scranton still has that one
.so it goes.
D.ny by day, there's never a
,ban on looking from the out-
side. But on two days a year-I
next Friday and Saturday aft-1
ernons-the doors of 17 fines
and varied homes are open to
tourists. The women of Old
St. John's Church arrange the
visiting schediqlp and act as
guides. The oiaeeds benefit
thti church.
Each of the'17 homes on the
See TQ. D9,' Col. 3 1
downright indecent"t riedy's place on 31st .
they're paying it more titan I erg's the huge Evermay
any of us ever expepted to 1 tate on 29th st . .. That au-
see," said a veteran real, estate
person.
Prices near and over $100,400
are not uncommon for, sOUle-
thing of size with garden and
garage. It takes a good bite
of cash to swing a deal and
then the new owner Might face
a substantial remodeling bill.
But Georgetown, limited in
size and close to midtown-
has been able to hurdle the
intrinsics and capitalize on
imaginative intangibles.
Georgetown residents range
from young career - for - now
girls wedged into small houses
to old-line inhabitants who
occupy homes much larger
than they need because of a
reluctance to pull up stakes
1 after all those years. And in
between there are families
with children, career couples,
bachelor types, some apart-
ment dwellers, big names,
small names-'People you
might find in Cleveland Park
o Cap$iol Hill or Foggy Bot-
i 'if yo on.'t live in George-
town, tire's no need to re-
gard this oldest section o
District through glasses t
with awe. Look George'wn
ii sgnare in its fashionably cas-
ual eye and realize that these I
people, for the most pet, like to be friendly, frolicksome
mnd snue
TOUR GUIDE: The Friday afternooh ggrretown House
.1W wil include stops at homes on the east side of
Wisconsin ave. 1. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee; 2. Mr.
and Mrs. John M. Rails; 3, Genevieve Wimsatt; 4. Gen.
rod Mrs. Charles H. Royce; 5. 'Mr., and Mrs. Chester
wles; a. Mrs. Arthur X. Fowler;" Mrs. Loudon Mel-
len 0. Mr. and Mrs. Robert 9ivard; 9. Sir Alwyn and
Lady. Crow; X. St. John's Church Parish Hall. The
Saturday afternoon tour on tJM west side of Wisconsin
it will include homes of: AX Mrs. Poe Burling; B.
and Mrs. H. gtes Lloyd- C, Mr. and Mrs. E. Harri-
Cl D. Mr. anct . rs. John S. Stillman; E. Mr.
1' - ! Mr. and Mrs. Karl Wag-
~_ r. d rs. Martin H. John Greer;
I. City Tavern.
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By Henry Rohland. Staff Photographer
HOME OF MRS. LOUDEN MELLEN (LEFT) FORMS PART OF TYPICAL
GEORGETOWN SCENE ON THIS BLOCK OF DUMBARTON AVE.
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WO?S'IORY WHITE FRAME Ht ME OF THE ROBERT
SEVARDS GIVES NEW E;NGLANI) LOOK
;OLD DOOR, ANTIQUE COAL tLE(HT AND PLANT
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