Posts tagged Dupont Circle
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Then and Now: The Townsend Mansion
Then (left): The Townsend Mansion at 2121 Massachusetts Ave, NW, ca. 1915. The home was built by Mary Scott Townsend, the daughter of William L. Scott, a Pennsylvania railroad and coal magnate who became a member of Congress. Now (right): The building has been home to the Cosmos Club since the club purchased the property in 1950. The mansion in its current state was created… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Nothing in life is free
Germantown parking district; Valet park for class?; Not so brotherly on TV; “Panhandling meters”; Dupont row house saved!; You get what you pay for, but safer anyway; The unusual vs. the mundane; Federal safety grants?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Today in buildings
If you don’t like your historic building, let it fall down?; You say “of its time,” I say “faux modernism”; Making the FBI building work; Good plan, bad design for Walgreens?; Hotel isn’t more important than everything else; Purple Line beats opponents, highways at TPB; And…. Keep reading…
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On the calendar: Meet Virginia
Walk Arlington; Bike the bridge; Plan VRE; Compare school redevelopment plans. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Park or don’t drive
Charlottesville considers meters; NCPC unhappy with no new parking at Navy Yard?; Talking parking in Alexandria; Sweeper cam tickets to fund housing; BRAC all fraked; NYC imagines 49,000 shared bicycles; DCCA elects slate, President too close to call. Keep reading…