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This home is located at 1326 Corcoran Street, NW:
The flier says:
“Fantastic Victorian townhouse on one of DC’s most beautiful streets. Classic 4BR/2.5BA owners unit and a 1BR/1BA in-law suite. Renovated/updated 2008-2009. Great LR/DR with double FP’s, hardwood floors, soaring columns. Sunny stylish kitchen w/ SS appliances. Top floor mstr suite w/ full bath – double vanity. Big roofdeck with monument view. Walk to everything but hey – one car parking just in case.”
More info found here and a virtual tour found here.
I was psyched to see what a 3 story row house looked like on the inside. I have to say though I think my favorite part is the killer roof deck. Though I did like the cool looking floors in some of the rooms as well. What’s your favorite part? For the curious – it’s yours for $1,339,000. Do you prefer this style more than last week’s more modern one?
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Only 1.3mm? Relatively to someother stuff we have seen, that seems like a reasonable price.
Nice house, but it loses points for the formstone
Holy bulkheads, Batman. Love the whole thing except the blown out first floor LR/DR area, with prominent bulkheads. Too open. Rest of the house looks abso lovely, period-correct, just really nice. Lighting in particular (esp in LR/DR) looks nice – directional recessed lights. They did a great job with colors, too. And I really like the MBR on top floor, office/family/guest on middle floor. Great way to set up a 3-story house. In that neighborhood, 1.3M ought to be about right.
Love it, even though it doesn’t have a wine cellar or wine fridge. The rooftop deck is really cool. I always thought the roof top deck was more of a Baltimore thing and I haven’t seen many here in DC.
The roof leaks in the back, the kitchen is too small and the bathroom renovations were not complete.
I don’t quite know what to say about this one. It’s beautiful, the roof deck is to die for but the lack of any detailing and the stupid columns stuck in the living/dining room just bother me. The house could visually be so much more but who knows what condition it was in when they renovated it. Maybe $1 million to $1.1 million.
Ah formstone, the polyester of brick.
I was underwhelmed by the first floor, but liked the bedrooms and the roof deck. I was trying to think of what would make the first floor “million dollar house worthy,” and couldn’t put my finger on what was missing…I guess just period charm?
@anon 3:10
walls?
Ironic that they took the historic preservation easement when they stripped nearly all of the original details out of the interior. Not a bad gut job, but I’m just saying
anon3:24–the L’Enfant Conservation Trust protects facades, not interiors. L’Enfant Cons. Trust have a very interesting explanation comparing easements and preservation laws on their website.
I like it. Most homes of this age have a bulkhead of some sort, in order to provide central A/C & cooling. Normally the GDoN homes have bulkheads running the whole length of the home with no reference at all to the proportions or spaces around it. At least this one has integrated the bulkhead forms with columns.
I really like how they broke up the kitchen cabinetry, instead of continuing in a U-Shape. Somehow it seems much bigger, like two people could comfortably work in it.
It does seem to me like the hodgepodge of flooring on the upper levels would detract somewhat from the value–cut/loop carpeting in the master, sisal in the middle bedroom, parquet in the office.
It also seems a bit odd that they advertise an in-law unit but don’t show it in the photos.
Otherwise, I say it looks like a good deal. There have been quiet a few smaller GDoNs for the same price.
Good location, nice bones, productive rental unit, and all that jazz, but nothing here blows my skirt up. Roof deck is a nice touch, but based on the comments I frankly expected more — a hot tub, tiki bar, or landscaped planters at least. I’ve seen nicer when I put on my monocle and top-hat and cruise open houses as Maximillian Farnsworth Wellington, III, connoisseur and buyer of fine and expensive things.
Don’t know what stuff is going for in Logan these days, and of course that makes a load of difference, but this place is a 750k house in Columbia Heights.
Anon@6:10–what a house goes for in Columbia heights is about as relevant to a house in Logan Circle as a house in Falls Church is.
As has been said many times, there will always be some place in the District, in the region, in the world, where a house can be had for cheaper. Location does actually influence price and value.
@not telling Says
Yeah . . . I get it. But this home probably had some great details that are now in someone else’s home, a 2nd hand salvage operation, or a dumpster.
btw – the preservation easement is a joke. Any contributing home in a historic district can apply, and for a very modest tax break you sign over a lot of control over the facade of your home. Want new energy efficient windows? tough luck
Anon 6:44, while there are certainly downsides to Columbia Heights compared to Logan Circle — crime, further from downtown, fewer restaurants — people most certaintly do compare neigbhorhoods and prices when looking for a place to live. And I think Columbia Heights is a much closer substitute for Logan Circle than Falls Church is. So prices in Columbia Heights are relevant, and I think it is probably off that this house is priced 40% higher than a comprable house in Columbia Heights. For one thing, you don’t see that much of a disparity with rents or condo prices, where I would say Logan is priced about 20% higher.
Scratch that — this is 73% higher than $750k, not 40%.
Stewie from the Family Guy lives in the second floor bedroom/office – SOLD! Well, if I had that kinda money, maybe…
The copy-pasted “well you can get it cheaper in Petworth” comments are lame. They were lame a week ago, and a month ago.