So many of the brick rowhouses, even modest ones, show us that distinctive, attractive brick masonry that has become a thing of the past. The stepped brick cornice at the top, the scroll-sawn ornamental wood infill over the windows, and the use of angled brick as decorative bands in the facade are seen over and over in houses around old city DC.

I lived a block south @ 42 K st in the 60"s. I remember that I could look out my front window and see over those houses. They were gone by '68. I'm surprised that there were African-Americans living there in the twenties. K street was integrated when we moved there in '60, so I believed that the majority of the residents in the neighborhood were white in the decades before. Seems the reverse is true.

Just another part of Old D.C. that is no more. This building has far more class and style than the utilitarian boxes that surround the site today.