Mount Pleasant

Judging Pop Ups

By Prince Of Petworth

We looked at the cool angled one to the right back in February (located on 15th Street across from Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park). But now the one featured here is really starting to take shape. I guess the real question is what will the surface be – brick (like below) or vinyl? If it’s red brick it should look pretty good especially since it’s on a slope. And I still think the angled one on the right is going to be pretty sweet as well. Do you think this one featured in the photo above is going to look good?

Judging Restaurants – Haydees

By Prince Of Petworth

Haydees is located at 3102 Mount Pleasant Street, NW. The review on Yelp are quite scattered. But I seem to recall that there are some readers who are pretty big fans. Is Haydees a thumbs up or down?

Photos From PoPville

By Prince Of Petworth

This photo was taken by Nestum23 of the one year anniversary of the fire at 3145 Mt. Pleasant Street.  Nestum23 has captioned the photo, “One year later they want to volver…I hope they do.”

Submit your photos to the PoPville flickr pool here.  I understand not all folks like to join the pool so if you’d like to submit a photo you can also email me or tag your flickr photo “popvilledc”.

Photos From PoPville

By Prince Of Petworth

I’m becoming a huge fan of Nestum23 photos…

He’s captured the great El West from Mt. Pleasant.

Submit your photos to the PoPville flickr pool here.  I understand not all folks like to join the pool so if you’d like to submit a photo you can also email me or tag your flickr photo “popvilledc”.

Neat Neighborhood Find (To Me) – “Ingelside”, Now Stoddard Baptist Nursing Home

By Prince Of Petworth

The home located at 1818 19th Newton Street, NW is completely wild because as you are walking along the street there are normal rowhomes and then all of a sudden there is this huge “mansion”. Thankfully, there was a heritage trail marker to explain it to me:

And here’s what it looked like back in the day:

I can’t believe I’ve walked through Mt. P so many times without walking past it before. It’s really amazing. Any other fans out there?

Beautifying A Chain Link Fence

By Prince Of Petworth

I remember back in the day, some folks were really opposed to chain link fences. I saw this one in Mt. P. They were adding bamboo to the front to cover the chain link. Dig it?

Mount Pleasant Library Expansion Meeting

By Prince Of Petworth

I’ve seen lots of back and forth on some listservs discussing whether or not the Mt. Pleasant Library should be expanded at its current location (corner of 16th and Mt. Pleasant Street) or in an area in Columbia Heights. Does anyone feel strongly about the Mt. P library expansion?

From an email:

“ANC1D is sponsoring a ward-wide meeting concerning the renovation and expansion of the Mount Pleasant Library, on Tuesday, March 3rd, at 7:00 p.m., at the La Casa Community Center, 3166 Mount Pleasant Street.

There is considerable support now for the notion that the expansion of
the library should be to another site in Ward One, outside Mount
Pleasant, to better serve the whole population of Ward One.

Councilmember Jim Graham will facilitate this dialog.”

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