I would check the regulations. In some areas, historical (Hysterical) societies have some pretty broad powers.

Anonymous wrote:OP you should talk to your architect. It sounds as if you didn’t get approval by whatever historic district you fall under. This is separate from the dcra inspections. I would reach out to the architect asap bc where we lived in kalorama, paying the fine was just the punishment but did not correct the problem. Otherwise everyone would have done what they wanted and paid the relatively small fine. You were fined but still had to correct the area that was not done to whatever historic guidelines are in place for that area. My neighbor had to remove his inappropriate windows and redo.

I'm curious about this as well, if you just pay the fine and then don't correct it, what happens? Is there some ultimate end fine at some point? Obviously they can't forcible change my windows. At some point it would be cheaper to replace the brand new windows, but with there are a lot of windows and with the cost of these huge custom size windows (I have a typical multi-story bay front row house, so I have windows on the front of my house which are more than 6feet tall by 5feet wide) and the cost of labor, the fine would have to be quite large before I would replace them over paying more fines.