Georgetown, District of Columbia SPECIAL COLLECTIONS RESEARC H C E N T E R View from Red Hill, back of Georgetown. From Picturesque America, Vol. 2, edited by William Cullen Bryant, 1874. A Guide to the City of Georgetown, D.C. in the Special Collections Research Center Special Collections Research Center Gelman Library, Suite 704 Phone: 202-994-7549 Email: [email protected] http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC This and other bibliographies can be accessed online at http://www.gelman.gwu.edu/collections/SCRC/research-tools/bibliographies-1 GEORGETOWN 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS ARCHITECTURE ................................................................................................... 3 CEMETERIES ........................................................................................................ 4 CHURCHES ......................................................................................................... 5 DIRECTORIES....................................................................................................... 7 GENERAL HISTORY ............................................................................................. 8 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ........................................................................... 12 HISTORIC TOURS/WALKS ................................................................................ 16 MAPS ................................................................................................................ 16 PHOTOGRAPHS ............................................................................................... 18 POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT ....................................................................... 19 TRANSPORTATION ........................................................................................... 23 WATERFRONT .................................................................................................. 24 GEORGETOWN 3 ARCHITECTURE Commission of Fine Arts. Georgetown Architecture-Northwest: Northwest Washington, District of Columbia. Washington, 1970. Call Number: Special Collections NA 705.A25 no. 6 Commission of Fine Arts. Georgetown Architecture: The Waterfront, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia. Washington, 1968. Call Number: Special Collections NA 705.A25 no. 4 Commission of Fine Arts. Georgetown Commercial Architecture: M Street, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia. Arlington, VA: Washington Planning and Service Center, National Park Service, 1967. Call Number: Special Collections NA 705.A25 no. 2 Commission of Fine Arts. Georgetown Commercial Architecture: Wisconsin Avenue, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia. Arlington, VA: 1967. Call Number: Special Collections NA 705.A25 no. 3 Commission of Fine Arts. Georgetown Residential Architecture, Northeast: Northwest Washington, District of Columbia. Washington: s.n., 1969. Call Number: Special Collections NA 705.A25 no. 5 Davis, Deering, Stephen Dorsey, and Ralph Hall. Georgetown Houses of the Federal Period, Washington, D.C., 1780-1830. New York: Architectural Book Publishings Co., Inc., 1944. Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 D3 Eberlein, Harold. Historic Houses of George-Town & Washington City. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1958. Call Number: Special Collections F 195.E2 Hathaway, Anthony and Wynant Vanderpool. M Street, a Georgetown Panorama. New York: Vanderpool Group, 1977. Call Number: Special Collections F 203.7.M2 M2 Leary, Josephine. Backward Glances at Georgetown, with Anecdotes of Famous Washingtonians and their Georgetown Homes. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1947. Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 L4 GEORGETOWN 4 CEMETERIES Bell & Bro. The Oak Hill Cemetery at Georgetown, D.C. Washington: Bell & Bro., 187-. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 1741 Oak-Hill Cemetery Company. Charter, By-laws and Regulations of the Oak-Hill Cemetery Co., Georgetown, D.C. Washington: s.n., 1849. Call Number: Special Collections EPHEMERA 96 Ridgely, Helen. Historic Graves of Maryland and the District of Columbia, with the Inscriptions Appearing on the Tombstones in Most of the Counties of the State and in Washington and Georgetown. New York: The Grafton Press, 1908. Call Number: Special Collections F 180.R55 Sullivan, Robert. Corcoran-Eustis Monument, Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown. s.l.: s.n., 1994. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 1000 Sullivan, Robert. Entry Gate, Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown. s.l.: s.n., 1994. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 998 Sullivan, Robert. George Washington University Plot, Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown. s.l.: s.n., 1994. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 1002 Sullivan, Robert. John Howard Payne Monument, Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown. s.l.: s.n., 1994. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 999 Sullivan, Robert. Van Ness Mausoleum, Oak Hill Cemetery, Georgetown. s.l.: s.n., 1994. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 1005 GEORGETOWN 5 CHURCHES Balch, Thomas. Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C.: A Lecture Delivered by the Methodist Protestant Church, Georgetown, D.C., January 20, 1859. Washington: Henry Polkinhorn, 1859. Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 B2 Balch, Thomas. Reminiscences of Georgetown, D.C.: A Second Lecture Delivered in the Meth. Protestant Church, Georgetown, D.C., March 9, 1859. Washington: Henry Polkinhorn, 1859. Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 B21 Brown, Frederick. A Sermon, Giving Thanks for Union Victories: Preached in Bridge Street Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, D.C., August 6th, 1863. Washington: H. Polkinhorn, 1863. Call Number: Special Collections E 458.3.B885 Butler, C.M. A Sermon Giving a Historical Account of St. John’s Church, Georgetown, D.C., Delivered October 17, 1843; And an Address on the Occasion of the Funeral of Abel P. Upshur & Others Who Lost Their Lives by the Calamity on Board in the Princeton, Feb. 28, 1844; And also a Farewell Sermon Delivered April 7, 1844 on His Resignation of the Rectorship of St. John’s Church. Washington: J and G.S. Gideon, 1844. Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.G4 S34 1844 Christ Church, St.Stephen’s Guild. The Georgetown Cook Book. Washington: s.n., 1949. Call Number: Special Collections TX 715.W32 Gassaway, Stephen. The Voice of the Lord: A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Georgetown, D.C., on the Sunday after the Late Melancholy Catastrophe on Board the U.S. Steam Ship Princeton. Washington: Alexander and Barnard, 1844. Call Number: Special Collections E 396.G24 Georgetown Convent of the Visitation. A Story of Courage: Annals of the Georgetown Convent of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the Manuscript Records by George Parsons Lathrop and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. Call Number: Special Collections BX 4549.G4 L3 1894 GEORGETOWN 6 Jones, Ida Elizabeth. Creative Destruction: Identity and the Effect of Urban Renewal on Georgetown Methodists in Washington, D.C., 1945-1954. Ph.D. Thesis, Howard University, 2001. Call Number: Special Collections HT 177.W3 J65 2001a Kilburn Brothers. Oak Hill Chapel, Georgetown, D.C. Littleton: Kilburn Brothers, 1890. Call Number: Special Collections GRAPHIC 1693 Sisters of Visitation. Miraculous Cure of Sister Beatrix Myers, a Nun of the Visitation in Georgetown, D.C.: Obtained by the Intercession of Prince Hohenlohe, on the 10th of February, 1825. Washington: Henri Guegan, 1825. Call Number: Special Collections F 194.5.M57 1825 Sisters of Visitation. Petition of the Sisters of the Visitation of Georgetown, D.C., Praying that an Act of Incorporation may be Passed in their Favor: April 8, 1828, Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Washington: Duff Green, 1828. Call Number: Special Collections BS 4549.G4 P47 Smith, Kathy. A History of Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown. Washington: s.n., 1974. Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.W3 G7 1974 Smith, Samuel. The Resurrection of the Body: A Discourse, Delivered in the Presbyterian Church, in Georgetown, on Sunday, October 22nd, 1809. Washington: s.n., 1809. Call Number: Special Collections BT 871.S64 1809 Soper, Julius. Little Falls Mission M.E. Church, Under the Auspices of the Dumbarton St. M.E. Church, Georgetown, D.C.: Holograph, 1871, July 25. Call Number: Special Collections MS2135/001-0007 #00116 Ten Eyck. One Hundred and Fifty Years in the Life of St. John’s Church, Georgetown. Washington: The Church, 1946. Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.W3 S28 Waring, Luther. History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Georgetown, D.C…Washington, District of Columbia, 1769-1909. Washington: B.S. Adams, 1909. GEORGETOWN 7 Call Number: Special Collections F 202.G3 W2 Williams, Walter. History of Christ Church, Georgetown, D.C.: Prepared from the Records of the Church…and Read at the Semi-Centennial Celebration, Held on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1868. Georgetown: Ladies’ Sewing Society of Christ Church, Courier Press, 1869. Call Number: Special Collections BX 5980.G4 C47 1869 DIRECTORIES Boyd, Andrew. Boyd’s Washington and Georgetown Directory. Washington: Boyd & Waite, 1858. Call Number: Special Collections F 192.5.A E.A. Cohen & Company. A Full Directory, for Washington City, Georgetown, and Alexandria. Washington: E.A. Cohen & Co., 1834. Call Number: Special Collections F 192.5.A1 1834 Hunter, Alfred. The Washington and Georgetown Directory, Strangers’ Guidebook for Washington, and Congressional and Clerks’ Register. Washington: Kirkwood & McGill, 1853. Call Number: Special Collections F 192.5.A1 1853 Hutchinson’s Washington and Georgetown Directory: Containing Also