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  andy2 November 27, 2012 at 2:48 pm

  http://www.princeofpetworth.com/2011/03/dear-pop-buildings-at-8th-st-nw-between-d-and-e/
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    Prince Of Petworth November 27, 2012 at 2:50 pm

    That is what the Pepco substation text is hyperlinked to above.
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      andy2 November 27, 2012 at 2:55 pm

      read to quickly – sorry Dan.
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  CoHiGrrrl November 27, 2012 at 2:49 pm

  I would Color-By-Number the crap out of that.
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  Tim November 27, 2012 at 3:03 pm

  Interesting read: http://www.streetsofwashington.com/2010/08/little-shop-that-survived-sort-of.html
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  bruno November 27, 2012 at 3:13 pm

  I think that’s by Teaism in Penn Quarter and may be a school. Area is chockablock with tots now whereas before it was somber.
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  bruno November 27, 2012 at 3:20 pm

  Yes, further research reveals it is a BASIS Charter School. Makes that hgood very lively.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/charter-school-known-for-rigor-comes-to-dc/2012/08/15/76f1ace4-e614-11e1-8741-940e3f6dbf48_story.html
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  Mike November 28, 2012 at 10:23 am

  What’s going on here is a tragedy.
  Yes, it’s a Pepco sub station, but the real tragedy here are these pitiful facades slapped up with tacky drawings of the rest of the windows drawn around them.
  All of this used to be on Pennsylvania avenue before most of it was leveled in the architectural purge of the 1970s.
  Someone stored the facades and then they were slapped up years later to “beautify” the sub station.
  I feel sad when I look at this. These were once dignified buildings on America’s mainstreet.
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    roccocco November 28, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    I’d trade any of the intimidating, ugly substations in my neighborhood for this one. It was a bizarre idea to preserve the building facade to begin with but otherwise this facade ends up as rubble.

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