This 1894 house is the second-oldest in Cleveland Park, built at the same time as streetcars began running up Connecticut Avenue. As a significant home in the Cleveland Park Historic District, the project required approvals by the local ANC and DC Historic Preservation Review Board.

The program called for a large but compatible extension to the home to accommodate a growing family of five, including a complete gutting of the interior, down to bare studs and joists. The new work extended and updated the original details of the house, in some places matching existing trims and details exactly, in others creating entirely new designs that complemented existing work.

Another difficult aspect of the design was making sense of the circulation in an extended plan. The solution included adding a new stair and creating an axis down the center of the house, opening to public and private spaces on either side. The axis terminates on the first floor in a covered rear porch opening onto the rear yard.