Respect D.C.: The Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church Has NONE, As They Defile Another Historic Mansion of Upper Sixteenth Street, 4700 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Respect D.C.: The Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church Has NONE, As They Defile Another Historic Mansion of Upper Sixteenth Street, 4700 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Looking Northwest at 4700 Sixteenth Street, NW at the defaced Spanish Colonial Mansion and contemporary addition of the Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Located at 4700 16th Street, NW, the Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church joins the ranks of our “In The Name of God” series, a group of articles recognizing the outstanding work of religious groups and their treatment of historic properties. Before winter one could look upon the lost grandeur of the expansive Spanish colonial mansion of 4700 16th Street, NW, now it’s one of the vile additions that are creeping up on the integrity of Upper Sixteenth Street in the neighborhood of Saul’s Addition.
We deplore this addition. Many churches decry the loss of traditional values and morals in modern society, they wonder why people so easily throw away years of belief and tradition, yet they throw away our physical heritage at the most sophisticated level with no respect for the past nor the built context of their own neighborhood or place.
Whats behind the addition?
Looking Northwest at the new addition of the Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church, 4700 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. Note the Gothic/Tudor Revival Mansion in the distance.Looking Northeast at 4700 Sixteenth Street, NW--the rear of the Spanish Colonial Mansion, now largely defaced and defiled by the contemporary and probably vile addition of the Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church, not thinking much, apparently, of the historic context of the buildings of the area.
Looking Northeast at 4700 Sixteenth Street, NW--the rear of the Spanish Colonial Mansion, now largely defaced and defiled by the contemporary and probably vile addition of the Washington Seventh Day Baptist Church, not thinking much, apparently, of the historic context of the buildings of the area.
