SIX LOGAN CIRCLE
Washington, D.C.
Constructed in 1878 from the designs of architect Henry R. Searle, Six
Logan Circle is a five-story rowhouse which features a highly articulated
façade of green serpentine stone laid up in a veneer of quarry-faced,
random ashlar blocks with Pennsylvania red brick trim. Located in the
Logan Circle National Register Historic District in Washington, D.C.,
this building sits directly on Logan Circle, an original open space design
element of the 1790s plan for the Federal City by Pierre L’Enfant.
Constructed for Naval Commander Allen V. Reed, the property remained
a single-family residence until 1940 when the Reed family sold the
building. Typical of many
of the large residential properties within the district, Six Logan Circle was
subdivided and converted into a multiple-unit dwelling after World War II. Over
the next forty years the building functioned as a nine-unit apartment complex
and received little maintenance during this time.
In 1982, the property was purchased
by the Six Logan Circle Associates with the intent of rehabilitating
the property into six residential
units. A major component
of the rehabilitation focused on selecting a treatment for the extremely deteriorated
serpentine stone façade.
| Use of carefully selected substitute materials
as replacement for severely deteriorated masonry is appropriate
in limited cases. |
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