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Is This The Closest Thing DC Has To A Soho Loft?

  • September 10th

by UrbanTurf Staff

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774 Girard Street NW, #7W. Click to enlarge.

Over the years, UrbanTurf has featured a handful of loft spaces around DC. There was the 10,000 square-foot space in the former Pierce School owned by NBA star Dwight Howard. Then there was the 6,000 square-foot unit at an old schoolhouse in Eckington. Today, we head up to Columbia Heights to get a look at a newer 5,000 square-foot listing coming on the market soon that is about as close as the city comes to a property that you might find in lower Manhattan. 

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The mansion warehouse unit at the Helicopter Factory along Girard Street (map) is set to come on the market later this week for just shy of $3.5 million. Listed with Daniel Heider of TTR Sotheby's International Realty, the three-level, 5,100 square foot residence is the largest unit in what was once a factory used to make parts for helicopters. 

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The unit has a sprawling 50-foot-by-50-foot footprint, 15-foot ceilings, and sweeping outdoor space that the current owner has nearly doubled in size. The project was designed by Urban Design Group out of Baltimore, a firm that specializes in the redesign of warehouses.

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Roof deck. Click to enlarge.

The open spaces inside the listing are filled with exposed beams and rich red brick walls. The main living area is divided into a billiards space, a media room with a retractable projector screen, and a sitting area. The primary suite includes a private sitting area with a fireplace, a marble bath with dual vanities, and a large dressing room with a built-in island. The top level of the unit has a marble wet bar with a fitness studio framed by two walls of glass. Other standout features include a wraparound rooftop patio with multiple seating areas, and two parking spaces on the ground level located behind an automatic roll-up door.  

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Parking area.

While helicopters were never built on-site, the Helicopter Factory name pays homage to Emile Berliner, an inventor who used the warehouse in the late 19th- and early 20th century to develop materials to build airplane and helicopter engines.

Photos courtesy of Derek and Vee. 

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/is_this_the_closest_thing_dc_has_to_a_soho_loft/22694.

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