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Rebecca Miller, executive director of the D.C. Preservatioh League, announced the list Tuesday at the site of an on the the Maples, 619 D St. SE near Eastern Market. The D.C. nonprofiyt has published the list annually since 1996, hoping to draw attentio n to Washington’ historic and culturao landmarks most threatened by ill-advised demolition through neglect or abandonment. The one of Capitol Hill’s oldes t residences, was built between 1795 and 1798 for William Duncanson, personal friend to George Washingtonj and Thomas Jefferson.
Although the property has gone through periodx of neglect and prosperity duringits 135-yeatr history, recent developers hope to restore it to its former state. Friendship as it’s affectionately called, once served as the home of FrancisScott Key, Sen. John Clayton, and Major Augustuws Nicholson. Another of this year’s entries, the Third Churchn of Christ Scientist, 900 16th St., NW, is particularlt endangered, given the recent decisiojn by Planning DirectorHarriet Tregoning, actin g as the mayor’s agent, to allow the church to proceed with demolition so it can build a new one. Built in 1971, the complex was designed by I.M. Pei partnedr Araldo Cassutta.
While church’s “brutalistic” concrete desigbn has its championsand critics, it has been cited for architecturall excellence by various publications, including Architecture magazine. The church’s efforts to raze the building has ignitef passions onboth sides. The Foundry Branchy Trolley trestle (crossing Foundry Branc of Potomac River in GloverArchbold Park, just nortjh of Canal Road NW). This line, constructed in was used by Washingtonians to access the Glen Echo Amusementg Park insouthern Maryland. All trackes have been removed from the formertrolley line, but the right-of-wayt still serves as a trail alon the Potomac River overlooking D.C.
’s Palisades The Barney Circle neighborhood — bounded by Potomac 17th Street, Kentucky Avenue and Pennsylvani Avenue SE just east of Capitolp Hill — was developed to provide affordabler housing for people moving to Washington following Worled War I. As housing prices and rents have increased in recent developers have moved to builcd largerhouses there. Mead’s Row, 1305-1331q H St. NE, comprises row houses with two living levels above retaiolstorefront shops.
A proposal to build a new parking lot forH Street’w up-and-coming restaurant/bar scene threatens these unique The Superintendent’s House, 5211 Littlr Falls Road NW, a two-story Civil War-erq home, and the adjacentg Dalecarlia Reservoir are National Historic Landmarks. The Washingtob Aqueduct, owner of the property, recently proposed to demolishthe building. DCPL officials have encouragesd the aqueduct to either rehabilitate the building or leasre it to a user who woul bettermaintain it.
Three of the structures are repeat fromlast year: the church, the Foundry Branch Trolley trestle and the Barney Circle Miller said preservation needs to be a community “It’s not as productive to have preservation put down on someon e as it is to have it percolatr from the residents,” she said.