Giant Adirondack Chair

So… if you’re a Georgetown student, and you’ve been drunk and walking around Burleith at night, chances are you’ve happened upon this chair. I can’t tell you how many Facebook photos I’ve seen posted of anywhere from 3 – 15 kids on this chair always AT NIGHT. Nobody goes to this chair to take pictures during the day (that is, if you’re a Georgetown student. If you’re a tourist then you probably want to be there in daylight).
The only other significant thing I could say is that it’s kind of hard to climb into the chair, from the front end, as it’s rather tall there. Especially if you’re short and drunk. And that on popular party nights out, there’s sometimes a line to take pictures in the chair. But oh well. If you’re a student, you need to make sure you eventually go with a group of friends and take a photo on this chair — it’s bucket list worthy but pretty easy to cross off.

Yeah. Big ass chair.

Yep, it’s a giant chair. Memorable sight. Not much to it other than that.

cool photo opp

…it’s…a…giant…chair???

The unexamined life is not worth living. So let’s take a look at why someone would vandalize a large Adirondack chair. Does it make you feel small? Are you Don Quixote attacking large green chairs that look like dragons?
This chair is not unlike The Giving Tree. It’s part of a community and it makes people take pause. It enhances the area and it makes people smile. What’s wrong with that? The chair is what you make of it. Don’t project negative emotions onto the wood of this chair. If you vandalize this chair– you are small.
Why should you check out the Giant Adirondack Chair?
This local piece is meant for people who aren’t afraid to see life from a different angle. At the rate we’re going, it may not be there for long.
If you love your community– Take a Stand. Don’t let people tear your neighborhood apart. This chair is on the grounds of the Duke Ellington HS for the performing arts. I think he would have agreed with me!
WWDED?
(what would duke ellington do?)

Awesome place to take a date over or family or friends also a nice tourist spot

Awesome and completely random haha
Looks even bigger in person but definitely climbable =]

Definitely check out this chair if you’re in the neighborhood. Make sure to take a picture, it’s really funny to see people walk by and not expect the chair there. Great for facebook photos.

I pass this chair on the bus a lot and I think it is cool. I didn’t know you could sit on it and sometimes it doesn’t look in the best shape to be sat on. It’s been through various stages of vandalism, graffitti and repainting but hey it’s a GREAT BIG CHAIR and you’d need repainted too if you had to sit outside all day. Try to go see it at a time when Ellington School is not letting out because at that time a million loud kids swarm the area catching their buses and rides and generally being kids. At other times the block is pretty quiet and you will have better photo ops.

I’ve been wanting to stop by for a photo for a year and I finally got to go back yesterday!
It was so fun to climb up onto the chair but beware! The paint gets super hot in the summer and can burn exposed bums and legs.

This chair creeps me out.

Such an awesome photo-​op location! Was walking around getting familiar with the area and saw this giant chair out of the corner of my eye. Not sure of the history, back story or reason for this chair’s existence, but that doesn’t matter to me, it’s big and serves no purpose other then to entertain the wandering tourist or the drunk college student, the fun times and photos that this chair must have participated in!
P. S. I had a heck of time getting on to this chair, and on a hot summer day, this chair gets scorching hot, came back with some friends and we had a hard time trying not to grimace from the pain of our burning backsides…

What’s all the fuss about this chair? Half of the time it is broken or vandalized, looking like an eye sore. No, I have never climbed the chair or posed with it for a picture, and I have no desire to. I think we should dismantle the chair and put a Flagpole in its place. If you want a place to perch and feel high on life, go climb a tree.

I love the big green chair, which I heard was recently completely defaced with graffiti. I hope they have cleaned it up or are planning to do so. Since I used to live in Glover Park, I have hung out on the big green chair many, many times. It was just a short walk from my old apartment and I spent many lovely weekend afternoons up on that chair. You have a great view from up there. It’s also good for spying on people and other sneaky business — especially if you sort of duck down so no one really sees what you’re doing.

Yeeesss, and they will be drunk Georgetown students.

Attention. Attention, please. Great photo opps notification! On the front lawn of the Ellington School in Georgetown is a GINORMOUS green Adirondack chair. Drive by in the warmer months and you will almost always see someone scaling the chair for a chance to have their picture taken. Worth a walk or drive over for just that reason.