Chance to Restore a Quirky Facade

A lovely house on O St. just came up for sale. It’s at 3115 O St. and it can be yours for a cool $5.5 mil.

I hope whoever does buy it has a flair for quirky history. Because this house was once quite notable for its unusual paint job, as I wrote about a few years ago.

When I wrote about this photo (taken from the DC Historical Society) I could quite locate it, nor remotely explain its story. I figured it was a bunch of hippies. Luckily Tom Birch reached out and provided the back story:

This is 3115 O St NW, across the street from Christ Church. The house was owned by George and Patty Herman. He was a correspondent for CBS news. In the course of planning to have their house painted they had various samples applied to choose. They couldn’t make up their minds so decided to leave it with a facade of many colors. I can’t comment on the white daisy, but the lower right hand corner carried the signature “Emilio”, for Pucci! The facade stayed this way through the 70’s and early 80’s. They weren’t hippies by any stretch of the word.

So here’s your chance to bring a bit more silliness to the neighborhood…