BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- Mitchell Park

DC -- Sheridan-Kalorama -- Mitchell Park:

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1. MPARK_970806_01.JPG: Bock A brown French poodle, the faithful friend and companion of the Mitchell family when he died, aged 14 years, he was buried on the land now known as Mitchell Park in memory of Morton Mitchell. The will of Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson Mitchell filed in 1918 made the following provision: To the City of Washington DC, I leave my lot on S Street to the memory of Morton Mitchell for a park. It was intended for our home, and our old dog, whose bones rest there, is not to be disturbed.
2. MPARK_970806_02.JPG: Mitchell Park; Dog Gravesite Here is the gravesite of the poodle, protected by a chain link fence, smack dab in the middle of the sand box. You can see that kids have played in the gravesite.
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Description of Subject Matter: E.N. Mitchell and his wife bought this lot and had planned to move here but he died before they were ready. His widow donated the land to the city in 1918 for a playground. The Mitchell's pet poodle, Bosque (or Bock), was already buried in the lot and the city was required to preserve the spot. Years ago I had come here to find a chained area where the poodle was buried next to a sandbox for kids and the kids were playing in both the sandbox and in the chained area. When I came back later, I couldn't find the grave or any marker about it. Finally, I found it by the jungle gym.

Due to the dog connection, it's a dog-friendly park and if you Google it, you'll find a number of dog clubs that meet here.

The house is a reconstruction of the old Anthony Holmead site, a farmhouse built in 1795. The house remained in family hands until the 20th century. In 1929, the house was razed by the German government which owned the property. During World War II, the U.S. government confiscated the land and annexed it to the adjacent Mitchell Park.

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EN Mitchell and his wife had planned to build a home in the Kalorama Square area of Washington DC and had bought the property for it. When the husband died unexpectedly, his widow donated the land to the city in 1918 for use as a playground. The only requirement was that the gravesite of her poodle, Bock (or "Bosque"), had to be preserved. Thus was created Mitchell Park (or "Poodle Park" if you'd like).

Bock:
A brown French poodle, the faithful friend and companion of the Mitchell family. When he died, aged 14 years, he was buried on the land now known as Mitchell Park in memory of Morton Mitchell. The will of Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson Mitchell filed in 1918 made the following provision:
"To the City of Washington, D.C., I leave my lot of S Street to the memory of Morton Mitchell for a park. It was intended for our home, and our old dog, whose bones rest there, is not to be disturbed."
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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