Digging at Huckleberry

[Jim Garrett]

Look what they did to the Key Mansion! For those not familiar with the story.........The Georgetown home of Francis Scott Key once stood on the edge of Georgetown along M St. They dismantled the building to build the Key bridge and were going to re-erect it on adjoining property. They stashed the building materials in a storage room under the bridge and the project languished in bureaucratic limbo for years and years. Meanwhile, the area where the pieces of the mansion were stored was not secured and over the years, it became THE SPOT for free used bricks, windows, doors, etc. (a number of beautiful old brick patios in Georgetown can boast a unique heritage. By the time they finally decided to re-erect the mansion, there was nothing to build. Government at it's finest.