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I never realized Chi-Cha Lounge was in an old Firehouse until I crossed the street and caught the whole building. Anyone know what the top floors are used for? Office space? There is also a super cool sculpture underneath a window with the date, presumably when it was built, 1893 on either side of the window. Close up of the sculpture and date after the jump.
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Not sure what the space is used for now, but many, many moons ago when I first moved to D.C. and before it was ChiCha but after it was a firehouse, there were apartmetns up there…with no kitchens…..It was really probably supposed to be offered as an office, but at the time, they were advertising it as an apartment sans kitchen.
They were recently trying to sell those apartments, with kitchen, as condos. A friend considered getting a 2 bedroom there, but backed out due to the music down stairs.
That upstairs space is now condos. I recently saw one on the market for a crazy price. Pretty non-spectacular inside.
i looked at a condo there about 5 years ago. it was the most unusable 500 sq feet imaginable. there wasn’t a square room in the place–all triangles and trapezoids, and not a single place you could put a couch or double bed. the “kitchen” consisted of a tiny sink and stove in a closet near the largest space. and they were asking a ridiculous price.
I looked at a condo there a few years back. It had a really weird/cut up configuration and no kitchen, but they were offering a $5,000 credit so you could build your own kitchen. It was very odd.