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Historic photo of the Patterson House, Courtesy of
showing the previous addition at right. Hartman-Cox Architects

New addition to
the Patterson House.
Photo © Anice Hoachlander / Hoachlander Davis Photography
Project: Ampeer Dupont Circle,
15 Dupont Circle, NW, Washington, DC
Architects: Hartman-Cox Architects
Interior Designers: Darryl Carter Inc.; Rockwell Group; Maurice Walters
Landscape Architects: Lee & Associates
Structural Engineers: Thornton Tomasetti
MEP/Fire Protection Engineers: WSP
Civil Engineers: VIKA Capitol
Contractor: Manhattan Construction Company

Photo © Anice Hoachlander / Hoachlander Davis Photography
new owner might chop up the mansion’s grand interior spaces or studio apartments with lavish shared spaces where tenants may work,
remove architectural elements and sell them. Fortunately, the club eat, or mingle with other residents. The project offers activities and
found a buyer who was interested not only in restoring the building’s programs intended to encourage a healthy work-life balance in a
historic fabric, but also in creating a rather unusual hybrid: a mix walkable neighborhood where residents can take full advantage of
between an apartment building, a hotel, and a social club in which urban living, including opportunities to get to know their neighbors.
the mansion’s most important rooms would continue to function The Patterson House property was perhaps uniquely suited to
much as they did during the Pattersons’ time. such a hybrid residential development. The original entertaining
Dubbed Ampeer Dupont Circle, the project was the brainchild areas in the mansion were readily convertible into gathering spaces
of B.F. “Frank” Saul, III, a scion of the local Saul real estate dynasty. for tenants, while the former bedrooms and servants’ quarters
It was co-developed by his new firm, Saul Urban, and Rooney on upper levels could be reconfigured into a small number of
Properties. The development combines small but fully furnished individual apartments. Just to the east of the original mansion,

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