Monday, January 30

heurich house


reviving the gothic revival

Back in the last decade of the 19th century, local DC brewer, Christian Heurich, built his gothic revival, late-Victorian house in Dupont Circle. The house was, and is, called the brewmaster's castle as Mr. Heurich remained a brewer until he passed, as the world's oldest brewer, at age 102 and a half. Apparently, Heurich's relatives started up the local Foggy Bottom lager with a brewery that stood where the Kennedy Center now resides.

The house is now the most intact late-Victorian house museum in the United States.

Some hundred and 10 years after it was built, the brewmaster's castle still makes headlines. It was featured, and the interior museum's continuance was urged, by DC's verion of the ist-blogs, DCist. The photo here is from their Mike Grass.

Also, some 110 years after it's inauguration, I moved across the street. That's actually my apartment, the beautiful neo-boxonian mid 80s looking construction in the lower left. Here, here, Heurich House. Thank you for sitting pretty outside my bedroom window.