Found a Carnegie Library by accident yesterday wandering around D.C. We were driving on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Southeast section of the city when I caught a glimpse (as coach John Madden once said “out of the corner of my right eye”) down a side street. . . Carnegie Libraries have a distinctive architecture. I told Gary to hook a U, which in the traffic took several blocks but we maneuvered back and there it was....sure appeared to be a Carnegie so I snapped a couple of photos through the window. When we got home I looked it up and, yes, it is the Southeastern Branch which opened in 1922. I will have to try and get back and see the interior. This brings my total to seventy-one. I don’t know how many are still standing but Andrew Carnegie gave grants for 1,689. . .I have a few more to visit don’t I?
Had lunch in a Cheesecake Factory in Chevy Chase - Eggs Benedict is probably my favorite breakfast and mine was SO good! Gary had a Monte Cristo sandwich he said was delicious - wish I could have had both! (but no, I didn’t!) We were too full for dessert and passed on their delicious cheesecake but wish I had gotten a piece to-go 'cause it would have gone so good last night! Oh well, saved the calories.
A library and a Cheesecake Factory? And the death of Osama on the same day? You're in a lucky string.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit to Ann's Reading Corner today.
ReplyDeleteWhat a life Dulee has, everyone should have his kind of life, wait, you have a dog's life too.
Glad you enjoy traveling, what a way to see the country. We retired to Iowa in 1998, we lived all our life around Grantsville, Maryland, off Interstate 68. It is a beautiful area to travel through in the Fall, the trees are just lovely in all their many colors in the Fall.
Happy traveling and Reading.
What a fun little library treasure hunt you have going on. And Cheesecake Factory....yum!!!
ReplyDeleteYou do have a lot more to see - does GA have any- come on down!
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