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Upcoming Events
Stop by the Restore Mass Ave info table!
Pumpkins, music, and autumn leaves are back. Join your neighbors at Friends of Mitchell Park’s 21st Annual Fall Fun Day, a free afternoon of family fun with a haunted house, photo booth, live music, food, pumpkin painting, crafts, and more!
Stop by the Restore Mass Ave table to meet our volunteers and learn how we’re working to re-green Embassy Row. Find out how you can help care for the grand trees that shade our neighborhood, whether you’re a curious kid, a longtime resident, or a future Treekeeper.
When: Sunday, October 25, 2:30 – 5:30 pm
Where: Mitchell Park, 23rd Street NW & S Street NW
Recent Events
Landscape Cleanup at Sheridan Circle
RMA volunteers had fun in the rain clearing weeds from medians at Sheridan Circle! Now thousands who pass every day can see our tall purple salvia and red roses.
To learn about volunteer opportunities with RMA, please visit our Volunteer page.
Celebrating the Renovation of Sheridan Statue and Park by NPS
Dozens of neighbors welcomed the opening of the renovated park and statue at Sheridan Circle by the National Park Service at a formal ceremony May 19. Restore Mass Ave Board members Carole Feld and John Buntin worked with the NPS for months while the fountains were restored, electricity brought into the circle, irrigation. As well NPS planted two new American linden trees to complete the historic ring. RMA has some issues with the new electric assembly on the park lawn, but we’re working to remedy this with our fine partners.
Left to Right: Carole Feld, ANC 2D Commission Chair; Andrea Travnicek, Assistant. Secretary of the Interior; Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent, NAMA/NPS.
European Union Open House
European Union Open House May 9 drew thousands of people to EU embassies along Massachusetts Avenue. Our info table by the Luxembourg Embassy attracted signups!
Here’s a new info card RMA released about our 2026 focus on restoring Sheridan Circle park with NPS and the surrounding landscape, including the medians,
RMA Spring Blossom Walk
Our first-ever Spring Blossom Walk was held April 4, before the leaves unfurl along our tree-lined route. At the request of neighbors, RMA President Deborah Shapley led a tour of the blossoming trees we enjoy in early spring. We began in Emmet Park, Mass Ave and S Street on April 4, with a brief history of Emmet Park and its trees.
Download Restore Mass Ave’s guide to early spring blooms
RMA’s e new friends at Mitchell Park Day
Over 600 adults and children enjoyed music, food, and festivities at the 20th Mitchell Park Fall Fun Day. RMA volunteers Soniya Carvalho, Pierre Wagner, Deborah Shapley, and W.G. (Jerry) Peck connected with city policymakers, neighborhood leaders, embassy personnel, and residents.
RMA Treekeeper Workshop
Our ranks of Treekeepers grew at our August 23 2025 Treekeeper Workshop. New and returning volunteers got their hands-in-the-dirt helping to grow “happy” trees. We met up by the Embassy of Latvia at 2306 Mass. Thank you, Latvia Embassy! We excavated soil around a tulip poplar by the Embassy of Romania. We moved to trees the 2200 block. Grace Covenant Church Georgetown at 2230 Mass Ave loaned their hose so we could water the newly helped trees.
Photographing the event was Stanley Staniski of staniski.net an internationally renowned photographer and Mass Ave resident. Thank you, Stanley!
The Ambassador of Brazil H.E. Maria Luiza Viotti and her husband Eduardo Baumgartz joined us and pitched in. See “Two new magnolias for the Brazil Embassy” for our planting there last fall.
Spring ’25 Tree Walk
Out of area walkers joined RMA’s free public Tree Walk on a Sunday in April. They saw majestic trees and the historic landscape around some famous mansions. RMA’s Charmine Osore and photographer Lennon Maldonado are thanked for the walk’s success.
Two new magnolias for the Brazil Embassy
The Embassy of Brazil joined RMA’s program of planting trees at diplomatic sites in partnership with the city Urban Forestry Division and the Arbor Day Foundation. In November 2024 pair of magnolia grandiflora trees requested by Ambassador H.E. Maria Luiza Viotti were planted. A lovely welcome ceremony followed.
Our First Public Tree Walk
Our first free public Tree Walk was in August 25 2024. About a dozen people met under the double row ginkgo and tulip poplar trees that line the sidewalks around Sheridan Circle. Walkers were shown how Sheridan Circle’s design and trees embody L’Enfant’s grand design for the capital city. The walk featured otter species as well. We measured the huge white oak tree by 2419 Mass planted in 1908. It is larger than 100 inches around and a DC-protected Heritage tree. We thank the homeowners for caring for this historic specimen from the original second row.
