I’ve noticed a lot of rowhouses on the 14th St. corridor have fantastic stained glass windows. This example has the number of the house in stained glass. Little details like this really make the homes in our neighborhoods pretty bad ass. Anyone live in a house with stained glass like this? Do you know from when it originates? Does your house/condo have any special details that make it unique?
A reader wrote me to express his displeasure with the looks of the new Target going in at Columbia Heights. He writes:
“The new Target to be completed in Columbia Heights looks like a jail, an imposing brick wart, probably designed for another site to be shoe-horned and plopped into that space. Chosen without regards to the community or surrounding architecture, It
Here is a photo from 13th St. showing an original third floor extension made out of brick. I’ll tell you why I like this one. Even though it still “sticks” out it has all the surrounding details that the other houses have, it is just one floor higher. If you look at the roof (my housing vocab. is slim) the border is exactly like the neighboring houses. Hmm, so I wonder why this house was built with an extra floor if it was built during the same time period as the 2 level houses. Any ideas?