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The District Winery building
and adjacent outdoor dining area.
Eat, Drink,
Eat, Drink,
and Get Married
and Get Married P
District Winery is a Unique Venue
in a Rapidly Developing Neighborhood
by G. Martin Moeller, Jr., Assoc. AIA
Approaching the District Winery in the Yards neighborhood includes a wine tasting bar, a restaurant named Ana (as
for the first time, a friend of this author’s started laughing in Anacostia), and space for private events such as
and shaking his head. “A winery. In DC. On the Anacostia,” weddings and meetings.
he mused. “Go figure.” The winery occupies a new, freestanding, pavilion-
The Yards, which draws its name from the adjacent like building adjacent to the Yards Park and just across a
Washington Navy Yard, is unlikely to be confused with small plaza from the Lumber Shed, a renovated former
the Loire or Napa valleys anytime soon, but the District industrial structure featured in the Spring 2012 issue
Winery, which opened in 2017, has already proved a of ARCHITECTUREDC. The winery’s base building
popular destination for local wine lovers and others. In was designed by Gensler, while the interiors are by
addition to actual wine production facilities, the venue HapstakDemetriou+, a firm with numerous restaurant
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