The old Dunmor's (a.k.a. "The Beer House) has been closed since September 8, 2016 at 8013 Woodmont Avenue in downtown Bethesda. It is one of several properties attached to the long-delayed redevelopment of 8008 Wisconsin Avenue, which have been left as vacant eyesores, and fenced off for seven years. A couple of mismatched chairs have now appeared on the porch of the beer house.
One is an office chair, and the other looks more like a kitchen chair. It's quite a vantage point, atop a crumbling crawlspace, part of which has been bashed in by man or beast - or some combination of the two. As Ace Ventura said, "Do not go in there. Wooooooooooo!" We might need to call Detective Ventura in to solve this mystery.
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Anyone remember (Walter) Manny Morris, the "mor" of Dunmor?
And in recent times, a motorcycle with sidecar. Amazing to consider that was, not all that long ago, a home where parents raised their kids. Single -family homes, like that one, downtown, are very few and far between anymore.
Why isn't it designated historic if it's one of the last original homes in downtown Bethesda?
The homeless are sneaking back into Super Surplus again, via the glass door with the hallway...
10:56 - That house, while indeed one of the last single-family homes in the downtown Bethesda district, doesn't nearly meet the criteria to be deemed historic. Even if it did, it can and would be allowed to be moved off that site. Way too valuable dirt to leave it there.
So very historic! Haha, good joke.
I like that house, too
I haven't seen an original house on a main downtown street other than this. There are some on the outskirts that maybe are somewhat original.
It's Clint Eastwood's chair from the 2012 Republican National Convention.
@ 6:30 AM - other original houses in the Woodmont Triangle are Tia Queta on DelRay Avenue and Pines of Rome on Cordell Avenue (former Matuba), partly hidden by newer construction on the front of the building.
4:29 - And there are quite a few more in the downtown district. But you nailed the ones most don't realize.
That's my chair. I sit there and ponder why I read Robert's blog. Occasionally, a friend comes by and joins me. It's a good spot to chill.
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