I found an even more beautiful house in Cleveland Park

[Anonymous]

Eewww. Other house is much nicer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1979, huhm... no thanks. And Wisconsin Avenue between Georgetown and Friendship Heights is painfully depressing. Will be improved somewhat by the new development, but the in-between patches will continue to suck.

I don't agree. Glover Park is nice, except for those horrid office and apartment buildings that they never should have built. The area around the Washington Cathedral is charming and the Cathedral and its Close are spectacular. I like the lower scale around McLean Gardens, Sidwell Friends and Fannie Mae, and Tenleytown is becoming more interesting. And Friendship Heights? If the Cheesecake Factory is your thing, go for it, but it's mostly mall stores, anchored by a painfully ugly 1970s concrete building atop the Metro.

[Anonymous]

I actually used to live in that house years and years ago when I was 20 years old. It's a great house with great bones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually used to live in that house years and years ago when I was 20 years old. It's a great house with great bones.

That's what people say when the house sucks, "but the 2x4 wood is good"

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1979, huhm... no thanks. And Wisconsin Avenue between Georgetown and Friendship Heights is painfully depressing. Will be improved somewhat by the new development, but the in-between patches will continue to suck.

I don't agree. Glover Park is nice, except for those horrid office and apartment buildings that they never should have built. The area around the Washington Cathedral is charming and the Cathedral and its Close are spectacular. I like the lower scale around McLean Gardens, Sidwell Friends and Fannie Mae, and Tenleytown is becoming more interesting. And Friendship Heights? If the Cheesecake Factory is your thing, go for it, but it's mostly mall stores, anchored by a painfully ugly 1970s concrete building atop the Metro.

Well, my "thing" is avoiding Wisconsin Avenue and, indeed, most of UpperNW, but I think, in particular, that McLean Gardens, Sidwell Friends and Fannie Mae are all painfully ugly. The low-rise strippiness (in every sense of the word) of Glover Park is pretty ugly, too.

But Friendship Heights is often useful to me, if not ever pretty. It's Metro-accessible, I see several doctors there, and sometimes shopping errands can be accomplished quickly and easily there. But... this usefulness doesn't extend to the long-slog parts of Wisconsin Ave. that are less congenial to non-drivers.