cleveland park: Cleveland Park's Wedding Cake House - You'll Want to Eat It Up!
- 10/14/14 11:19 AM
In Washington,'s Cleveland Park, the home at 3225 Highland Place NW is fondly known as the "Wedding Cake House". And when the listing agent, Terry Robinson of Long & Foster held it open today for her colleagues, it was on the top of my list of homes I had to visit.
And what a step back in time!
So, how did this charmer get it's name? It's from the frieze above the front porch looks like icing on a cake that came from Martha Stewart's kitchen.
But this home is way more than just a delicious facade.
First, the … (25 comments)
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cleveland park: What’s For Sale in Cleveland Park?
- 06/23/14 12:23 PM
What’s For Sale in Cleveland Park?
It’s no accident that Cleveland Park is one of Washington, DC’s most popular neighborhoods.
It’s located near a Metro stop, the National Zoo, and restaurants with cuisine from around the globe. And the houses are pretty amazing, too. And many of them have an interesting history.
If you want to buy a house in this neighborhood, you’d have seven to choose from if we went out to look at them tomorrow. The prices range from $1,149,000 for a, shall we say “interesting” house on Rodman Street to $6,500,000 for a huge front porch, in … (0 comments)
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cleveland park: Great Washington, DC Neighborhoods: Cleveland Park
- 12/30/12 02:29 PM
Great Washington, DC Neighborhoods: Cleveland Park
When I begin to work with a new buyer, their wish list usually includes things that only one DC neighborhood can deliver.
First, there is the location. If you live inCleveland Park, you can walk to anything that matters - a Metro station, restaurants with cuisine from many continents, the Uptown Theater, fine wine, and the National Zoo.
Oh, and there are the houses! They are amazing with a lot of history.
Cleveland Park was one of Washington's first suburbs, and many of the old Victorian and Queen Anne mansions were summer home where Washingtonians … (6 comments)
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cleveland park: Willie The Dirty Dog Has A Spa Day
- 12/11/09 01:46 PM
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Willie the Labradoodle loves mud. And we had enough rain earlier in the week that he rolled around the back yard puddles, and with his shaggy hair, it got pretty funky. So we headed for the Petco on Connecticut Avenue for his quarterly grooming. He was such a mess that they recommended a buzz cut. Willie now looks like a Marine! Oh, and I can see his eyes!
The grooming staff at Petco clearly love thier jobs. And Willie loves to spend an afternoon with the pampering. And don't you love the little poofy thing at the … (16 comments)
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cleveland park: Selling Rosedale Cottage
- 11/30/09 11:03 AM
This afternoon, I had a settlement on Rosedale Cottage, a house that I listed in April of 2008. It's a wonderful historic home in Washington's Cleveland Park - my favorite DC neighborhood.
Getting it from Just Listed to Sold has been an adventure.
It got sold (multiple offers, thank you very much), and then the perfect contract fell apart. So it was back to square one.
This was not your cookie-cutter Washington cliche house. The house had the highest pheromone factor that I've ever seen - it made heart's skip beats! And it was also what we often call "buyer specific".
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cleveland park: My Favorite Cleveland Park Greek Dive: Yanni's Greek Taverna
- 10/31/09 07:45 AM
On my first date with my sweetie, he suggested that we go out to dinner somewhere. I immediately thought of Yanni's Greek Taverna in Cleveland Park. It's that kind of a place.
OK, Yanni's isn't really a dive. It's a no-frills Greek restaurant with tasty food, great Greek wine (at least the white wine) and an owner who looks a bit like a Greek Gerard Depardieu.
And the food is fun.
They have all the usual appetizers, hummus, tzatziki, taramosalata, grape leaves, or just get the sampler.
The Greek salad is huge, and my favorite, the Taverna salad (chopped lettuce with … (17 comments)
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cleveland park: Cleveland Park Market Report
- 09/27/09 04:14 PM
Cleveland Park is one of my favorite Washington neighborhoods. It is incredibly architecturally diverse, in terms of sizes and styles. There are a couple of tiny little tudors like the one at the right, and a couple of really unusual contemporaries, but mostly big old turn of the century Victorians. So looking at sales numbers can get interesting.
For example, 2007 is generally thought of as the peak of the market here in Washington. But in Cleveland Park, that peak happened in 2008, at least looking at the number of sales and the average sales price.. And the 2008 average sales … (1 comments)
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cleveland park: The Broadmoor Cooperative: I Could Live There If They Allowed Pets!
- 07/05/09 03:37 PM
Soon after I got my real estate license, I became fascinated with a monolithic brick building on the corner of Connecticut Avenue and Porter Street NW. It was the Broadmoor Cooperative, one of the largest buildings in Cleveland Park. Back then, 1983, there was one old guy who was sort of the real estate king of this lovely old building.His name was Nelson, and he must have been 200 years old. He got all of the listings, and he put nothing into the multiple listing service, which was a fairly new thing back then. If Nelson liked you, he'd call you … (16 comments)
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cleveland park: Washington's Cleveland Park: Market Report
- 06/27/09 03:01 PM
Cleveland Park is a neighborhood of great architectural diversity. There are small row houses that sell in the high $600's and historic mansions with price tags in the $4.5 million range. Some are on tiny lots, with just enough room for the house and a postage stamp garden. Others have expansive lawns and gardens. And so far this year, the demand has been for the smaller homes at a relatively low price point.
The list of homes currently for sale includes two in excess of $4,000,000. And they are bringing the averages up. The highest selling price year to date is … (3 comments)
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cleveland park: Washington Neighborhood Tour: Cleveland Park
- 08/18/07 03:59 PM
Cleveland Park started off as a place for summer homes, so wealthy residents of Washington could escape from the horrendous heat and humidity - not to mention August outbreaks of typhoid fever!
It gets its name from President Grover Cleveland, who was one of its earliest renovators. He bought an old stone house near 35th and Newark Streets and renovated it for use as a summer White House. He sold it when he left office, and it has since been torn down.
In the late 1800's, street car lines linked the neighborhood to downtown and changed its character, turning it into … (4 comments)
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