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worked on the apartment designs for both the mansion fruit, swags, and other ornamental devices animate and
and the addition. All of the unit layouts were ultimately lend depth to the façades. Black window frames, mullions,
tweaked and perfected by the design and development and grills contrast sharply with the prevailing whiteness.
team acting as a group. Inevitably, however, the mansion was showing signs
The sensitive restoration and updating of the historic of significant wear by the time the Washington Club
Patterson House was, of course, the sine qua non of the sold it. “The exterior was not in great shape,” explained
project. The mansion has always stood out for its D. Graham Davidson, FAIA, Hartman-Cox’s partner in
sumptuous materials, including blocks of gleaming charge for the project. “The marble was ‘sugary’ in many
marble and glazed terra cotta along with accent panels places, and some of the terra cotta that was replaced
and columns of richly veined marble. Carved angels, during the last restoration had to be replaced again.

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