Built in 1881, the Summit Hotel was regarded as a trendy spring and summer resort for those fortunate enough to take a holiday from the hustle and bustle of Washington. The hotel was located at the northeast corner of Summit and Frederick Avenues, where Saint Martin's Church now stands. Sadly, the Summit Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1895.
| Name | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Farkas Miller | 9/25/10 | I went to elementary school at St. Martin's. In 1983 I Paul and I were married at this wonderful church! |
| Fred Powell Jr | 4/7/11 | I actually served the early morning weekday mass in LATIN for I'm guessing 3-4 years with Father Mayer and Father John, until I went across the street to GHS AND the Catholic church had stopped doing services in Latin. |
| Nancy Zanner Correll | 7/27/11 | I well remember Father Meyer and the little cottage he lived in behind the church. That cottage hasn't changed in all the time I've known it. My Girl Scout troop used to meet in both the Civic Center (current City Hall) and the basement of St. Martin's. When I was growing up on Montgomery Ave., it seemed like half of G'burg was Catholic. Virtually everyone I knew on Maryland Ave.--the next street over--was, at any rate. |
| Suzanne Cissel Brodt | 10/8/11 | I was baptized (1947) in the old church before this new one was built in 1957. Mass was held in the basement of the school. The old school is gone now. Fr. Meyer was a great priest. My husband and I attended St. Martin's School until we graduated in 1961. Still keep in close contact with our graduating class. |
| Donna May | 7/11/17 | Does anyone remember a priest with the name of Stanislaus from St.Martin's ... around 1941? |
| Douglas Bowman | 4/28/20 | Priest Stanislaus Cuddy. The story I heard was that Fr. Cuddy had been called out one night to administer last rites, had stopped at the railroad tracks at the intersection of Frederick and Diamond Avenues, gotten out of his car, as was then the rule, looked up and down the tracks, and, seeing no train coming, got back in his car, drove into the path of a train and was killed. This event resulted in the construction of the original Frederick Ave bridge over the tracks. |
| Sara Wooden Saltarelli | 11/7/20 | Father Meyer was in charge of the school when I went there around 1962-1964. He later performed my marriage to my husband Tom |
| Maurice E. May | 2/23/21 | The "new" St. Martin's was built around 1956. My father, Maurice S. May, was the architect for the Archdiocese of Washington. |