Where Time Stood Still; Tudor Place, the Grand Old Georgetown Home, Shares Its Memories

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 16, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

The teeny-boppers and their boomboxes, the college students full of brass and beer, the candy wrapper droppers and the T-shirted tourists cavort down the avenues of Georgetown, often straying into quiet side streets where the houses seem to huddle against the '80s.

Above them all, still safe on a gently sloping hill, sits the proud and pristine Tudor Place, fortunate above all early great houses of the Republic.

Tudor Place, at 1644 31st St. NW, is now open as a house museum. Yesterday, for the first time in its long history, the public (by appointment to be sure and on their best ...

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