Georgetown on a Weekday Morning

Georgetown on a Weekday Morning

Baked & Wired on Thomas Jefferson Street does espresso and cupcakes that beat Georgetown Cupcake in every locals' poll. The C&O Canal towpath runs through the neighborhood's western edge — a time machine of stone locks and sycamores. Georgetown Cupcake gets the tourists. Baked & Wired gets the people who actually live here.

The Old Stone House at 3051 M Street — built 1765, oldest unchanged building in D.C. — keeps its stories behind a veil of ivy. The C&O Canal, built in the 1830s, extends 184 miles to Cumberland, Maryland. Even a two-mile walk west to Fletcher's Cove makes the capital feel like a memory.

Georgetown before ten on a weekday: cobblestones still damp, joggers on the canal, townhouses with ivy catching early light. The neighborhood was a tobacco port before D.C. existed. It still moves at its own pace.