Georgetown Tee's

The shop at 1075 Wisconsin Avenue NW has been at this address since 1986, which makes it one of Georgetown’s longer-running retail operations and one of the few souvenir shops that has been selling Georgetown Hoyas gear and Washington DC knickknacks longer than many Georgetown University alumni have been alive. Georgetown Tee’s occupies a small storefront on the lower stretch of Wisconsin Avenue near M Street, in the cluster of tourist-accessible businesses that serve the heavy foot traffic from visitors arriving in Georgetown from the M Street and Wisconsin Avenue intersection.

The inventory is organized around two primary markets that converge at this address. Georgetown University students and alumni, and the family members and fans who visit them or follow the Hoyas athletics programs, represent one side of the customer base. Washington DC visitors who want to take something back that commemorates the city and this particular neighborhood represent the other. The two markets overlap in the Georgetown T-shirt, which can serve both the alumni wearing the name of their school and the tourist wearing the name of the neighborhood they visited.

The Hoyas gear includes T-shirts in the Georgetown University colors and with the Hoyas name and logo in the range of styles that sports fans look for: classic university lettering, athletic department designs, and the kind of casual gear that alumni wear on weekends for decades after graduation. The DC-themed selection covers Washington iconography, neighborhood-specific designs, and the range of souvenir formats that visitors reach for: shot glasses, keychains, magnets, postcards, mugs, and the smaller novelty items that fill the display cases at the register.

The small-format storefront puts the entire inventory within reach of a customer who can stand in the middle of the store and survey everything the shop carries, which is both the spatial reality and the appeal of the format. There is no large floor to navigate, no section that requires a second visit to find. The Georgetown Tee’s experience is complete in a few minutes, which matches the visitor profile: someone who stops in on the way to or from another Georgetown destination, makes a practical souvenir decision, and is on their way.

The store is open Monday through Saturday from 11am to 8pm and Sunday from noon to 6pm. The phone is (202) 337-4399. The Wisconsin Avenue address is at the intersection with M Street, which is the busiest pedestrian corner in Georgetown on a Saturday and the most accessible retail address in the neighborhood for visitors arriving from the Circulator stops on both streets. The product selection extends beyond shirts to the full souvenir format: Georgetown University and Washington DC mugs, keychains, magnets, shot glasses, postcards, and socks. The store’s location at the intersection of Wisconsin and M Street means that visitors arriving by the Georgetown Circulator on either street encounter the shop as one of the first and last retail addresses they see in the neighborhood. For visitors who want to purchase something tangible from Georgetown without the investment that the boutique brands on M Street require, the Wisconsin Avenue address at 1075 provides the full range of options at prices that reflect the souvenir category.