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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Agree. People in DC are very traditional and conservative when it comes to style--whether it be clothes or homes.[/quote]

It's not really a question of conservatism and matters of style.  It's more a status issue and an effort on the part of some residents of older homes to try to persuade others that their own lifestyle should be copied.  Put many of these folks in LA and they'd gush about contemporary homes, or put them in Atlanta and they'd boast about their new home in Buckhead.    
 
The DC area has some really nice pre-WW II homes, but it also has many non-descript older properties and very nice newer houses.   I have to say that I agree that the rowhouses in places like Glover Park (and much of NE and SE) don't exactly leave me green with envy.  Convenient, maybe?  A testament to urban aesthetics?  Not exactly.  If all the older properties were as well-built and desirable as some posters here suggest, you wouldn't see nearly as many major renovations and teardowns as you do today.    [/quote]

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