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Washingtonian Residential Design Award
Chapman Stables
Washington, DC
Studio Twenty Seven
Architecture
Landscape Architects: Clinton & Associates
Structural Engineers: Ehlert Bryan Consulting Structural
Engineers
MEP Engineers: Meta Engineers
Civil Engineers: christopher consultants, ltd.
General Contractor: Sigal Construction (now GCS-Sigal)
The Chapman Stables, designed by Studio Twenty Seven
Architecture,is located at 57 N Street, NW, in Washington’s
Truxton Circle neighborhood. This adaptive re-use project
renovated and added to an early-20th-century garage building
that incorporated the remnants of an earlier horse stable, converting
the structure, which is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, into a condominium development with 114 market-rate
and affordable units.
The project added a third and fourth floor to the existing two-
story garage/stable building, and placed a new five-story building
behind it, creating a U-shaped development with a densely planted
central courtyard. The two levels added to the existing building
are set back, allowing the N Street frontage to be expressed as a
line of two-story row houses. The new five-story building in the
back, which fronts onto a former alley now known as Hanover
Place, is a crisply modern structure with a dancing assemblage of
floor-to-ceiling windows and a rooftop pavilion and garden.
The project’s N Street entry was fitted into a shaft that
had been used for an automobile elevator. The existing building’s
interior design puts the structure’s history on display by preserving
its terrazzo floors and exposing its brick walls and massive cast-iron
support beams.
According to the architects, the historic building “represents
a significant contribution to the broad patterns of [Washington’s]
Main entrance along the N Street frontage, history, and embodies distinctive characteristics of early-20th-
which retains its two-story height.
century life,” while the renovation preserved and exploited the
Photos © Anice Hoachlander/Hoachlander Davis Photography “light industrial detailing of the building.”
Addition, as seen Interior of one of
from the former alley. the living units.
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