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Sean Hennessey Sculptures Debut At DC City Hall Tonight
The same local artist, Sean Hennessey, who recently transformed a bland Penn Quarter condo into an HGTV feature is having two of his sculptures shown at DC’s City Hall tonight (along with several other local artists’ works). Sean is also hosting an Open Studio party on Sunday November 12, from 1 – 6 pm.
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15th Street In Downtown To Get Residents?
If you look at our handy residential map in the right column of this blog, you’ll notice that there aren’t any residential buildings between 10th St and the White House. We noticed in the last few issues of the Downtown BID’s construction report (pdf) that SJG Properties was planning on renovating the Woodward office [...]
Gallery Place Living In The Express!
PQ Resident’s excellent piece about neighborhood architecture was featured today in The Washington Post’s Express.
Bedrock Billiards/Comfort One/Ecco Shoes Location Gets To Work
We’ve observed workers going in and out of the future locations for Bedrock Billiards/Comfort One/Ecco Shoes. We though we’d also bring a high altitude view of the fence that was recently installed outside of these locations.
Dude, Where’s My Architecture?
We’ve wanted to touch on architecture and what better day than a Sunday, when open houses abound and WaPo’s real estate section is a prominent part of the Sunday Post. Just as Adolph Cluss had an architectural influence on Washington in his day (the late 1800s), it looks like Esocoff Architects will have its [...]
Construction Stories
Construction still abounds in Gallery Place and a lot of it is near residential units. Some of the active sites include an office building at 6th and G St, an office building at 9th and E St and residential construction along Mass Ave. We thought we’d simply provide a place today for people to share [...]
Posh Is Opening For Dinner
Greg writes in to let us know that the Posh Restaurant & Supper Club (730 11th St, NW) is showing up on OpenTable. Sure enough, another source confirmed that it will open tonight (Friday). It is housed in the restaurant formerly known as Ortanique and the first table we could find on OpenTable was on [...]
Crime Maps Available On DC Government Site
The DC Government now has crime maps online based on its DC Atlas online maps that provide a wide variety of map based city information. You can define crime search criteria by location, search radius and date range. Check it out here.
Meet "The King" At The National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery hosts portrait talks every Thursday at 6:00pm. Meet in the F Street lobby and the presenter will escort the group to the portrait to begin the talk. Next week, “The King,” Elvis Presley will have his day in the limelight.
Thursday, Oct. 26 – Anne Goodyear on the Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Thursday, [...]
"Horses" In Gallery Place (pics)
First came the sand, now come the horses. They’ll be here until the 30th.