Rosemont Park Market

One of the first – and certainly the longest-lasting – business in Rosemont was the Rosemont Park Market. A grocery store was operating at 2 East Walnut Street under that name as early as 1930. In 1943, Vivian Burke, the daughter of the proprietor at the time, was reported to have received a four-year scholarship to GWU. By the 1950s, it was affiliated with District Grocery Stores, a local cooperative – and through the mid-1970s its proprietors were Seymour and Frances Fromm. They were later followed by Albert and Maria Chung, before the store was converted to the Grape + Bean in 2012 and became today's Rosemont Cellar.