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Formstone Being Removed from former Frazier’s Funeral Home (391 Rhode Island Ave NW)
Photo by Hipchickindc – May 2012
Thanks to everyone who sent emails about the formstone being removed from the former Frazier’s Funeral Home at 391 Rhode Island Ave, NW. Unfortunately still no word on what exactly the space will become. Stay tuned.
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I thought it was reported that it’s going to be funeral home again.
I don’t love the formstone, but I don’t hate it either. I do like the castle looking stuff on the top and hope it doesn’t go.
I actually kinda like the formstone, so I’m not all that thrilled to see it go. Reminds me of Baltimore.
Like you, I really dig the crenellated turrets on the lower photo, so it will be disappointing if those disappear with the formstone facade.
I guess historical preservationist types will be happy to see the original masonry restored, but I’d hate to be the one paying for all that work!
Formstone, the polyester of brick.
It already looks better, although the disappearing of any battlement-type feature is kind of sad. Small price to pay for the disappearance of formstone and those awnings, though. Hopefully this will become a thriving business of some kind – any kind…
Zoning ruled March 26th in favor of the new owner’s proposed conversion to a 6 unit apartment building.
here’s a link to the PDF:
http://dcra.dc.gov/DC/DCRA/Media%20Releases/newsroom_archive/Zoning%20Determination%20Letters/Det_Let_re_391_Rhode_Island_Ave.,_NW_to_Sher_3-26-12.pdf
Link is dead — no pun intended. Please update.
How do you find these zoning or building permits? There’s a vacant lot that they started on near where I live and nothing’s happened for a while….very curious to know what it will be!
The address in question is 512, 514, and 516 Hobart Pl NW and use to be community gardens until supposedly Howard sold the property (although, curiously, the building permit I saw posted when they started digging listed Howard on it). Here’s a link. PoP, maybe you can check it out and illuminate for your neighbors to the south? http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hobart+place+dc&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=ybu6T-q8NOWl6gGrrtCHDg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=3&ved=0CFAQ_AUoAg
are you the developer? care to share a timeline?
i was hoping it would turn into a bar/restaurant, but anything that isn’t vacant is a-ok
The neighborhood needs fewer places to drink, more places to live.
Sorry to see the turrets go tho, but not the formstone. A little goes a loooong way.
I think we all have different specific ideas of what our neighbood needs, but most of agree that updating decaying buildings and putting them to use is the right direction. Personally I’d rather see places that can provide employment for people. I don’t see housing, unless subsidized, as particularly helpful to the hood.
Glad to see some progress. There for a while things looked kinda dead around there.
Back in the day, this was a very desirable funeral home and people were dying to get in.
I guess we can’t have a thread about this place without a few funeral home jokes. So here goes:
Business was so dead at this former funeral home that it was bought and will be turned into condos which people will be dying to buy.
Seriously, this is such a promiment corner it will look a lot better with a restored building, even if it is condos. I wouldn’t want to live right there at that intersection, too noisy for me. But then there’s apartments/houses all up and down FL Ave, so apparently some people don’t care.
Haunted house saloon.
I sure could use a stiff drink!
Any body know he history of the business? (Who was Frazier?). It dawns on my that I don’t know of single funeral home in DC proper. Where are they?
There are stiff quite a few. All over the city.
There were two funeral homes within six blocks of each other on Florida. Frazier and another near the intersection of Georgia and Florida, which gives you an idea of how much dying was going on in this town in the bad old days…
Not sure this is really an indication of lots of death in the “bad old days.”
See this thread about funeral homes in certain neighborhoods of D.C.:
http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2007/10/friday-question-of-the-day-31/
“in the bad old days”……..and exactly when would that be?