Tea Room Postcard #11 -- Hains Point Tea House (Washington, D.C.)

"... There used to stand a small but stately, white-columned teahouse, facing resolutely south toward the open water of the Potomac. It stood there for 64 years, from 1923 to 1987, one of the best places to escape the oppressive summer heat of the city in the days before air conditioning."

— streetsofwashington.com

Are the trees blossoming in your neck of the woods? They are in mine, and that's one reason I am so enjoying this week's postcard of the Hains Point Tea House in Washington, D.C.

Though the card was never used (purchased as a souvenir, maybe?), I was delighted to find out more about the tea room on the Streets of Washington website. If you visit the link here, which I highly recommend, you'll also see a photo of the Girl Scout teahouse erected in Potomac Park around 1920, as well as a 1924 photo of President and Mrs. Coolidge standing in front of the Hains Point Tea House. There's also a remarkable photo of the tea house when it was flooded in 1985. We're not always able to learn so much about a tea house of yesteryear, but thanks to this website a wonderful bit of tea room history has been preserved!