Glover Park
Glover Park is a neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., and was named for Washingtonian Charles Carroll Glover, an influential late 19th and early 20th century banker and philanthropist. He is credited with the creation of DC's Rock Creek Park system and with an influential role in the creation of Embassy Row through generous land donations. He is also considered the father of the National Zoo and Rock Creek Parkway.
The name "Glover Park" is generally given to the neighborhoods surrounding Wisconsin Avenue between Calvert Street and Reservoir Road. The neighborhood is bordered by an extension of Rock Creek Park called Glover-Archbald Park (named after Charles Glover and Anne Archbald, who donated the land). The neighborhood is sometimes referred to as Upper Georgetown in real estate listings. Glover Park is about a mile north of Georgetown proper, just north of another "Upper Georgetown", Burleith.
Local claims to fame include several embassies (including the sprawling Russian embassy and the legendary tunnels beneath), as well as a burgeoning retail sector on Wisconsin Avenue. Glover Park has one of the lowest crime rates and one of the youngest populations in the District.
The family of Charles Glover pronounce their last name so that it rhymes with "cover." It would follow that Glover Park should be pronounced in the same way. Nevertheless, many people in Washington, especially recent transplants, mispronounce the name of the neighborhood so that it rhymes with "clover."
See also
List of neighborhoods of the District of Columbia by ward