or sale, even.

Nowhere near the Metro. Then again, if you can afford this place, you have a chauffeur to drive you wherever you need to go.

Obviously a nice house, for that kind of money I would want more privacy… this piece of property is very exposed.

drool. pant. drool.

Me want! You could roast an ox whole in that one fireplace. I’d put in a pool.

It’s pretty, but much too exposed for my taste. I guess rowhouse living has made me a little agoraphobic!

Agree with Tony that the pictures are a shame. Though perhaps at this price point, only the lookie-loos see the photos, and actual potential buyers just helicopter in for a half-hour.

I think the house is really beautiful, inside and out. That said, I have a hard time knowing what’s a good deal for houses this expensive, but the fact that it sold a year and a half ago at $1.35M makes me think the list price is quite high. The renovation looks very nice, but did it really raise the value over $2.25M in a declining market? I don’t have any experience in these matters, but as a layman I would tend to doubt it.

I actually don’t like the reno job very much. The inside seems to have very little character left, and that addition is cheap-as. Or at least it looks it. If I were going to pay to live in an 18th-century farmhouse, I’d want it to feel like an 18-century farmhouse. But with modern plumbing.

I think this is the best porn i’ve seen in months. Makes me want to go out and buy a lottery ticket.

I couldn’t agree more with Esmeralda. I loved this place before the renovation but now, yech, they ruined it.

And since it’s on the Historic Registry, you wouldn’t be able to build that rooftop midget wrestling cage or the gay sauna attachment with hot-and-cold running Hessians.

@monkeyrotica: I wanted a gay sauna attachment on my house, too, but I’m in Mt Pleasant and the HPRB wouldn’t allow it.

All the historic preservation naysayers should check out this link: http://planning.dc.gov/planning/frames.asp?doc=/planning/lib/planning/preservation/2007-12_hprb/2400_tilden_-_peirce_still_house.pdf

It’s the staff report to HPRB’s approval in December 2007 of a new 1-1/2 story addition, another addition to the main house of a master bath, and a new garage.

So that Jan. 2008 purchase was with the December 2007 HPRB approval in hand. They acquired the property, built the addition, and now it’s on the market. That’s why it’s selling for so much more than the last sale price and the old assessment. Current assessment probably doesn’t include the new addition.

Spectacular. However, I can’t help from laughing at the curtains hanging on either side of the toilette.

i can has?

I went in that house at the estate sale before it was renovated. It looks NOTHING like it did then. The house pre-renovation looked as if it may not have even had indoor plumbing. This renovation redid pretty much everything.

Ditto Isotopor. That is one huge fireplace in that second photo.

Amazing, with all that space, they didn’t build in closets (except for maybe one)! not even a coat closet on the ground floor. Regardless, even if they were trying to stay true to colonial architecture – its such a deal breaker. Although with 6 bedrooms you could always make a huge walk in.