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Richard’s deep connection to Georgetown and to history inspired the naming of 1789 restaurant. There were 3 reasons why Richard came up with the name 1789: John Carroll, founded Georgetown in 1789, the first Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher learning in the United States. That year, too, the state legislature made the port of ...
In December 1985, Clyde's Restaurant Group purchased from founder Richard J. McCooey three notable D.C. drinking and dining establishments: The Tombs, 1789 Restaurant, and F. Scott's. [5] These restaurants underwent a significant renovation from 2016 to 2018, and F. Scott's was closed, becoming a new bar and lounge area for 1789. [6]
The Tombs is a restaurant and bar located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was opened on July 23, 1962, [1] by restaurateur and Georgetown University graduate Richard McCooey as the below ground bar or rathskeller for his restaurant 1789. [2]
In 1995, Lacoste left Kinkead's to become the executive chef for Clyde's Restaurant Group's 1789 Restaurant in Georgetown. During her time as executive chef, she was named the 1999 Chef of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, and 1789 was named Restaurant of the Year at The Capital Restaurant & Hospitality Awards.
January 7 – The 1789 United States presidential elections and House of Representatives elections are held. January 21 – William Hill Brown 's anonymous sentimental epistolary novel The Power of Sympathy: or, The Triumph of Nature , usually considered the first American novel, is published in Boston .
1751: Georgetown founded 1752 – February: First survey of Georgetown completed. [1]1784 – October 7: Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts motions “that buildings for the use of Congress be erected on the banks of the Delaware near Trenton, or of the Potomac, near Georgetown, provided a suitable district can be procured on one of the rivers as aforesaid, for a federal town”.
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View of the City of Washington in 1792. L'Enfant was a French artist and engineer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. [5] In 1789, discussions were underway regarding a new federal capital city for the United States, and L'Enfant wrote to President Washington asking to be commissioned to plan the city.