Best New Listings: Lots to Love in Penn Branch and a Dupont Circle Microunit

• August 2nd 2019

by Nena Perry-Brown

This week’s Best New Listings includes a Tudor with three lots in Penn Branch, a 19th-century microunit in Dupont Circle, and a craftsman in Lyon Village.

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Lots to Love in Penn Branch

Over in Penn Branch, this 3,100-plus square-foot Tudor comes with three contiguous, vegetated lots and abuts a national park and the Fort Circle Park Hiker-Biker Trail. A flagstone path leads up to the stone four-bedroom house. Inside, the formal dining room has a wall of built-in shelving, double exposure and a bay window. A pillared entryway creates windows looking from the hall into the living room, which has a stone fireplace. Next, the U-shaped kitchen has an island and stacked cabinets, with the latter next to a built-in shelving-and-cabinetry unit which creates an office area. A concrete patio out back has an outdoor fireplace and a greenhouse, and overlooks the vegetated lots. 

• Full Listing: 3148 Westover Drive SE (map)
• Price: $750,000
• Bedrooms: Four
• Bathrooms: Five
• Square Feet: 3,181
• Year Built: 1938
• Listing Agent: Thais Austin, Long & Foster Real Estate

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A House of Many Tiles in Arlington

A short fence surrounds this three-bedroom craftsman in the Lyon Village neighborhood of Arlington. A standalone painted brick fireplace divides the living/family room, where french doors lead into a skylit sunroom. The spacious kitchen hosts the staircase and also has a wine fridge, a hood above the stove, and contrasting tile backsplashes. The owner's suite is on the main level, with an uninterrupted series of clerestory windows on three sides and custom closets in an en-suite bath that also has a double vanity and sauna shower. Upstairs, one of the bedrooms has a skylight and built-in shelving surrounding and creating a deep sill beneath a window; shared with the third bedroom, the skylit upstairs bath has white tiles covering the walls and floor.

• Full Listing: 2616 18th Street N (map)
• Price: $1,275,000
• Bedrooms: Three
• Bathrooms: 2.5
• Square Feet: 1,984
• Year Built: 1925
• Listing Agents: Billy Buck, Heidi Robbins, William G. Buck & Association

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An Updated 19th-Century Microunit

This 300 square-foot, pet-friendly Dupont Circle studio has a monthly fee as small as its size. The condo has an efficient layout, with a generous amount of counter space in an L-shaped kitchen that also has floating cabinets, a breakfast bar, an adjacent bar area, and a combination washer/dryer. A custom closet sits behind a pair of sliding frosted doors, and the living area has a corner fireplace. A pair of sliding glass doors lead out to a large patio with high brick and fenced walls for privacy. The unit also comes with a Murphy bed seamlessly concealed into the wall and white subway tiles covering the walls of the bathroom.

• Full Listing: 1723 Q Street NW, #G6 (map)
• Price: $249,000
• Bathrooms: One
• Square Feet: 300
• HOA Fees: $146/month
• Year Built: 1885
• Listing Agent: Stanton Schnepp, Compass

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/best-new-listings-lots-to-love-in-penn-branch-and-a-dupont-circle-microunit/15734.