Roll Out the Barrel THIRD AND F STREETS NE
Stuart-Hobso n Middle Schoo l , at Fourth and E Streets, NE, was built in 1927 on the site of an old brewery, one of nearly two dozen that operated in DC a er the Civil War. Most of the breweries were run by German immigrants who specialized in lager, a light alternative to the English-style ales produced by American brewers. George Juenemann opened his brewery and beer garden there in 1857, ten years a er he came to the United States. For nearly 30 years Juenemann’s Mount Vernon lager, dance pavilion, bowling alley, and dining hall entertained Washington’s German American fami lies. e Juenemanns lived nearby, and some employees lived on the site. Cincinnati brewer Albert Carry bought the complex a er Juenemann’s 1884 death, but sold it a few years later . e Washington Brewery Company, as its new owners renamed it, operated until Congress, with exclusive jurisdiction over DC, closed all city breweries in 1917, two years before Prohibition took hold nationwide . e only remnant of the brewery, the façade of its ice house, still stood at Fourth and I Streets, NE, in 2011. In 1830, when this area was still considered the country, Concordia (Lutheran Evangelical Church, of the Foggy Bottom section of Northwest DC, established its cemetery here. Nearly 30 years later, the city passed an ordinance prohibiting burials within its limits (then Boundary Street, today’s Florida Avenue, on the north. So Concordia relocated the graves to Prospect Hill, about two miles away on North Capitol Street.
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