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This one is located on 11th Street where the street curves a bit North of Logan Circle (anyone know the cross street?). I actually think the house looks pretty good though I’m not a big fan of the stone on the first level. But I think it blends in pretty well even though it’s a bit larger than the other homes. What do you think – thumbs up or down?

Category: Architecture, Buildings

By: | 02 July 2009 3:00 PM | 21 Comments

  • CAHBF

    Ooh honey, a little slice of Manassas right here in DC!

  • OldHouseLover

    Gross.

  • SG

    Top two levels are pretty good actually. The first level is just awful. If you stuccoed over it, the damage could be undone somewhat easily.

  • not telling

    thumbs down.

  • Hiya

    Ha ha… CAHBF took the words right out of my mouth.

    That place is hideous!

  • EdTheRed

    I think that’s actually 12th St., not 11th…right where 12th runs into Vermont Avenue, just below R St.

    And yeah, the ground floor is just hideous. If formstone is the polyester of brick, what’s that crap, the rayon of formstone? And what’s with the ridiculous undersized asymmetrical ground floor window?

  • Angry Parakeet

    If they had used the stone only to accent the nice arched entrance, it would look good. The whole wall makes me think of that uber-expensive three-level HIGH retaining wall built recently on South Dakota heading to Rte. 50. with the ugly all-vinyl siding townhouses perched over the traffic. Who would have guessed that real stone could look so bad.

  • Skeletor

    CAHBF, you hit it. It looks like they cheaped out on the glue-on stone. At least they could have finished the bottom floor facade on the front.

    Skeletor, MOTU

  • Sammy

    Woof. This is awful.

  • eric in ledroit

    this thing needs to be killed. it is simmered in weaksauce.

  • eric in ledroit

    i mean seriously there can’t possibly be an architect involved in “designing” that, can there? I would think even the worst architect in the city would come up with something better than that. Just copy a classic design for god’s sake!

  • Jim

    some sort of porch or outcropping on the first level might alleviate that mess a bit. the second two floors aren’t bad, except why the f**k not put some windows on that expanse of brick, for pete’s sake?

  • Anonymous

    So so so bad. Dear God.

  • Anonymous

    don’t know what you guys are talking about, i think it looks great. there should be moldings around the first floor window though

  • Mike W

    Look carefully and you see what looks like three meters inside the archway leading to the front door. It’s a 3-unit building. The heavy-duty balconies at the rear are a giveaway too.

    Awwww-FUL. I agree that the ground floor is an affront. There is one tiny window on the front, and nothing on the side. Notice also that the thing seems to have gotten tagged, and repainted, already; note the different color paint over a limited area along that side wall.

    Eeeeeeew.

    Or should that be, Eeeeeeeek.

  • Naomi

    I like it – minus the first floor. The brick is ugly and it could use more windows.

  • Naomi

    I guess what I am trying to say is I have one thumb up and one down

  • Emmaleigh504

    ugh. CAHBF said it better than I could.

  • EPF

    Ericinledroit – I’m liking your use of weaksauce. Although weaksauce is too weak for the crapitude of this monstrosity.

  • lab rat

    tasteless and vulgar; thumb’s down!



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