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Grace Dunlop Peter
A local historian with deep Georgetown roots, she wrote with the warmth of someone preserving a beloved neighborhood from memory as well as from records. Her best-known book brings old streets, houses, and families of Georgetown, Washington, vividly back to life.
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A Portrait of Old George Town
by Grace Dunlop Peter
About the author
Born Grace Glasgow Dunlop in 1878, she was closely tied to Georgetown, Washington, D.C.; accounts of her life describe her family as having lived there for generations. That lifelong connection shaped her writing and gave it a strong sense of place.
She is best known for A Portrait of Old George Town (1933), a book that set out not to be a formal history so much as a living portrait of the old town. She later worked on another local-history title, Cleveland Park, an Early Residential Neighborhood of the Nation's Capital, showing the same interest in Washington's neighborhoods, architecture, and memory.
She died in 1974. Her work still appeals to readers who enjoy city history told in an intimate, personal way, with attention to everyday streets and the people who once filled them.