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Main façade of 5333 Connecticut Avenue, NW.

Geometry and
Geometry and

Geography
Geography

Slick Modern Building Joins

Connecticut Avenue’s Apartment

House Parade by Mary Jane Bolle

The stretch of Connecticut Avenue, NW, from Florida that continues to attract residents. A number of them
Avenue to the District/Maryland line is renowned as the site figured prominently in James Goode’s popular survey
of one of the country’s greatest processions of apartment of grand DC apartment buildings, Best Addresses.
buildings. Designed in a wide range of styles, they reflect Until recently, there was one conspicuously vacant
changing tastes, employ diverse building technologies, large site along the avenue not far from the Maryland
and exhibit varied relationships to the street and their line. Decades ago, developer Calvin Cafritz had bought a
sites, yet most of them share a certain air of graciousness row of houses on the 5300 block of Connecticut and tore

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