New one going up on upper 14th Street across the street from Le Caprice in Columbia Heights. Thumbs up or down?
Upton and Reno Road, NW
Actually I don’t what you’d call this – looks like they cracked the house clear in half and added way way back. We’ll definitely revisit when it’s completed.
With a view into the soapstone valley trail. Awesome.
The Cleveland Park library is located at 3310 Connecticut Ave, NW. Thumbs up or down on the renderings? There’s already some pretty serious debate on the Cleveland Park listserve. Here’s the current view via google:
From the Cleveland Park Historical Society:
“The concept design presentation for the new Cleveland Park Library as presented at the Oct. 6th community meeting is now available to view below. CPHS’s Architectural Review Committee will review the plans at its November 9th meeting, which neighbors are welcome to attend. We will send out a notice of the agenda in early November.”
Easy to overlook with the newseum across the street but this one is a beauty:
Thanks to a reader for sending from Crestwood on Matthewson Road. Do you dig it?
Ed. Note: I pray we get to take a virtual tour of the inside one day too.
Photos courtesy of Carlos Rosario School
It’s the Carlos Rosario School’s Sonia Gutierrez Campus! From an email:
“On Friday, June 5th we’ll be having a street naming celebration at the Sonia Gutierrez Campus at 5th and V street NE. I think a lot of people (especially those walking on the Metropolitan Branch Trail) might not know what the building is and what we do. It would be great to spread the word through Popville.
On Friday, in addition to remarks from the mayor and city councilmembers, the event will also include the unveiling of the street sign, food prepared by culinary arts students, student performances and student-led tours. It should be a good party complete with a Mariachi band, traditional Ethiopian dancers and good food prepared by our students.”
On June 5th the Carlos Rosario School will host a street naming ceremony and celebration to honor the national award-winning Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School that has transformed the lives of over 70,000 Latinos and other immigrants for the past four decades.
The D.C. Council unanimously voted to commemoratively name the 500 block of V Street NE as Sonia Gutierrez Campus Way. The naming ceremony will take place in front of the Sonia Gutierrez Campus in recognition of the legacy and impact of Sonia Gutierrez, the Carlos Rosario School’s founder and innovative educator, for her 43 years of service to the Latino and immigrant communities of Washington, DC.
This is the first time in Washington, DC history that a street is named in honor of a Latina!
What: Street Naming Ceremony and Reception to include student-led entertainment and tours as well as food prepared by Carlos Rosario culinary arts career training students
Who: Key attendees include city councilmembers, key community leaders, school leaders, and members of the greater DC region’s immigrant communities including adult immigrant students and graduates
When: June 5, 2015 from 10:30am to 1pm
Where: Sonia Gutierrez Campus, 514 V Street NE
A reader sends an updated photo of the mega pop up coming to the 1700 block of New Jersey Ave, NW.
“I call it the Leaning Tower of Shaw. It is hard to see in the photo, but the building leans to the left.”
Earlier this month a reader sent in a shot of 11th and W St, NW but it was cut off a bit with no landscaping in yet. So I wanted to see for myself and a get a few other angles – here it is:
Across the street from this oft nominated house of the day:
Ah I love this house. It was a house porn post back in 2011 (was going for $3,450,000 then.) It’s back on the market:
“Without doubt, a fine & unique house in one of the most private settings in Washington. Designed by world-acclaimed architect Travis L. Price as his own residence, we are proud to offer a home which defies the prosaic and usual parameters in residential architecture. One can only understand this space by experiencing it. A work of art in a most jewel-like environment.”
You can see some more photos here.
This 4 bed/3 bath is now going for $3,399,000.
