LeDroit Park’s New Residential Project

Fifty out of the original 64 James-McGill-designed Victorian homes in Ledroit Park are still in the neighborhood- but one of them is to get renovated.

Community Three Development is pushing for renovation proposals on the main house and carriage house at 1922 3rd Street NW. There will also be a new, small residential development at the southern edge of the property. The proposal calls for a 14,000 gross square feet of space, a 14 residential units and four garage spaces- which is permitted by zoning. Of the 14 proposed residential units, one will be set aside for affordable housing.

A document submitted by Community Three Development to the District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board says that the design for the project

“creates an addition to the existing main building that is smaller in scale and secondary to the main building, allowing the main structure to continue to read as the dominant form on the site. This addition terminates in a “carriage house court,” designed to celebrate the existing carriage house, while maintaining the historic structure’s existing view corridor from U Street. A new unsubdivided townhouse lot and structure is created to terminate the row of townhouses directly to the south of the site. The result of these interventions preserves and enhances the character and urban form associated with the main structure and corresponding carriage house.”

This renovation is nothing new. Some historic homes in the neighborhood have been renovated in the past. Just a few years ago, a historic LeDroit property, the Italianate-styled Juniper, underwent renovations which many considered as an exquisite achievement.

photo credit: Community Three Development