Quick Shots #3: DC Office of Planning/Historic Preservation - 2 Shaw properties

Updated 5/31/2013: Content
Updated 5/27/2013: Proposal Text and Rendering "Property One"
Updated 5/12/2013: Content and Photo "Property One"

The DC Office of Planning / Historic Preservation Board is meeting on May 23rd and May 30th. Among the properties for review there are 2 that are of interest to Shaw Residents. Both are eyesores, but development  must meet The Shaw Historic District standards.

Property One.
1505 9th Street NW. (Shaw Historic) situated between Shiloh Child Development Center and The Queen of Sheba restaurant. This thin strip of land was purchased at a tax sale. The owners are due to present their concept, for a new 4-story, 4-unit brick flat-front with oriel.

1505 9th Street property abuts Queen of Sheba restaurant on one side

The Shiloh Child Development Center on the other side

Update: To get a perspective of a 4 story structure at this location, the construction of the Mandalay Restaurant is 4 stories, see picture below.

4 stories to the right of Queen of Sheba restaurant gives perspective on proposal

Update 5/27/2013:  The DC Office of Planning / Historic Preservation Board have the property at 1509 9th on their agenda for May 30th...Here is the proposal text;

Proposal
The applicant proposes a new brick veneer residential building four stories tall with a height of 45 feet measured from grade to the front roof ridge. It is pulled three feet back from the front property line. The facade is organized in a tri-partite fashion. The first floor has the main entrance paired with a flush mounted aluminum storefront under a band of precast trim that spans the entire facade. The second and third floors
feature a glass and aluminum oriel projection approximately 8 feet wide and 3 feet deep. At the top story the oriel insects with, and continues through, a canted roof slab that gives the effect of a mansard roof form.
The roof plan indicates a roof deck above the fourth floor mansard with a penthouse stair engaged with the north party wall, but these features are not shown in elevation or the perspective rendering.

This is the official rendering

Update 5/31/2013:  "The HPO recommends that the Review Board find the concept design for a four-story building with oriel and mansard at 1505 9th Street NW compatible with the character of the Shaw Historic District and consistent with the purposes of the preservation act, and delegate final approval to staff. 

Vote: 6-1."

Property Two.

1322 9th Street NW (Blagden Alley/Naylor Court) is directly next to The Darryl Carter retail boutique. This property has been back and forth between the ANC, Blagden Alley/Naylor Court Assoc. and Historic Preservation a number of times. The main point of contention is the preservation of the stable in the rear and how to incorporate it into a new 5-story residential building, with retail. Look out for a full post on this property in the coming weeks.

1322 9th Street NW - view from 9th Street

1322 9th Street NW - view of Stable at rear, from 9th Street

More on these 2 properties will be forthcoming over the next few weeks as they go through the approvals (or not) process.
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