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Tudor Place Review
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Tudor Place
Houses / Mansions, Georgetown
Fodor's Review:
Stop at Q Street between 31st and 32nd streets; look through the trees to the north, at the top of a sloping lawn, and you can see the neoclassical Tudor Place, designed by Capitol architect Dr. William Thornton and completed in 1816. On a house tour you can see Francis Scott Key's desk, items that belonged to George Washington, and spurs belonging to soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The house was built for Thomas Peter, son of Georgetown's first mayor, and his wife, Martha Custis, Martha Washington's granddaughter. It was because of this connection to the president's family that Tudor Place came to house many items from Mount Vernon. The yellow stucco house is interesting for its architecture -- especially the dramatic, two-story domed portico on the south side -- but its familial heritage is even more remarkable: Tudor Place stayed in the same family for 178 years, until 1983, when Armistead Peter III died. Before his death, Peter established a foundation to restore the house and open it to the public. You can only visit the house by guided tour (reservations are advised), but afterward you can wander freely, or picnic in the formal garden, full of roses and boxwoods, many planted in the early 19th century.
INFO
- Address: 1644 31st St. NW, Georgetown, Washington, DC
- Phone: 202/965-0400
- Web site
- Cost: House tour, $6, includes admission to garden; garden only, $2
- Open: Feb.-Dec. House tours Tues.-Fri. at 10, 11:30, 1, and 2:30; Sat. hourly 10-4; last tour at 3. Sun. at noon, 1, 2, and 3. Garden Nov.-Mar. and June-Aug., Mon.-Sat. 10-4; Apr., May, Sept., and Oct., Mon.-Sat. 10-4, Sun. noon-4
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