Live in a hip and esteemed neighborhood that is both walking distance from downtown Washington, DC, and Rock Creek Park. Dupont Circle offers some of the most desired addresses in the nation’s capital within a diverse community alternately described as traditional with its historic homes and elite clubs, and nouveau with its funky fare and trendy boutiques. Your neighbors may be renowned celebrities on Washington’s “Who’s Who” list or bohemian artists and progressive social activists making waves in DC’s alternative community and throughout the world.
Be among the many there who live in condos in townhouses or mid-rises in or surrounding the Circle that serve on street-level as stores or cafes, on upper levels as offices and meeting places, or at top, as spacious or cozy condos overlooking DC monuments, trees in little parks or the expanse of Rock Creek’s, or palatial city estates. Like those estates, your condo might include a magnificent courtyard with fountains and benches amid gardens that blossom year-round.
Condos for sale include buildings that feature concierges offering classic as well as personal services. Lease a condo for rent, whether long-term or for a vacation or business contract, and enjoy the same services as your next-door neighbor owner. Many, as was a fixture in historic homes, feature fireplaces in the living area as well as a bedroom.
Perhaps, like many of your neighbors, you will work at home and will bop downstairs in the summer for lunch at an outdoor cafe next to suits who work at a foundation, policy center or association up the street. Dupont Circle, with its terraces, windowsills and front stoops filled with planters of overflowing flowers and ivy, is among the most welcoming venues in the city weekdays through Saturday nights and Sunday brunches. Make your living anywhere in DC, or in nearby VA or MD, and be home with an easy commute in time to hear street side musicians on Connecticut Avenue, its main drag, intersecting the Circle, next to the Circle, while residents and workers talk about the politics of the day, play chess or lie on the grass while cooling to the spray of the Circle’s landmark fountain.
Avenues also intersecting the Circle include New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Take a Sunday drive or bike ride up Massachusetts and along side streets to view the embassies, their design making you feel as though you’ve stepped into their country. A favorite past time on Embassy Row is figuring out which flags you can name. Drop inside and see what’s open to the public to learn about places you’ve never been.
On the Metro subway redline, Dupont Circle is one stop down from the National Zoo and Adams Morgan, walking distance to burgeoning diverse Dupont East, mostly along P and Q Streets, NW, east of Connecticut Avenue, and one stop up from Farragut North, in the heart of downtown Washington.
You’ll be just around the corner from the Phillips Collection, National Geographic Society, where you can easily take advantage of its exhibits and special events and the Washington Club, the turn of the 20th Century Italianate mansion built by architect Stanford White.
Washington’s wealthiest built homes here in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Check out Queen Anne and Richardsonian revival styles. Some of these structures have been divided into condominiums. Live in Dupont and enjoy a foot in the past with an eye toward the future.
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