The house with the red boards took the plunge Monday night.
Check out this article & video from NBC4, photos are available in the Images in the News section of the site. A house in the 1200 block of Morse Street fell over last night & ended up in a pit being dug at a condo construction site. See my photos of the site yesterday (post collapse).
The view from the alley.
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Thanks Ken!
Was it the run down house that is almost connected to those condos? Is there any info out about those condos?
I've now posted the photos of the house & condos. I don't have any info on the condos.
god. at least it was empty.
That run down house that is almost connected to those condos is actually on the market (and been there for 105 days), DC5449211. List for 325k and claims to be recently renovated, but I guess they forgot to touch the outside. Couldn't find anything on the condos though.
From the pictures, it appears to me that the condos were being constructed behind the house that collapsed. Is that right? If so, did the house collapse backwards? If it collapsed to the side, it doesn't appear that it would have had enough room to fall over without hitting one of the neighboring buildings.
I think a more accurate description of what likely happened is that the building "crumbled" because the foundation shifted-collapsed. Think of how the World Trade Center fell. It kind of "imploded" because the outside pillars fell upon themselves because of the way that they were damaged.
Sorry for the unrelated comment, but does anyone know what's going on at the corner of K and 12th St (near Florida). It looks like they recently leveled a building.
I haven't been by, but the news report stated that it was the one-story building that fell over. It looks from the video like the two-story building with the red boards was already demolished prior to the collapse.
You could see in the video the firefighters cutting through the roof of the building - if it had been the 2-story, they wouldn't have the room to move.
It looks like the party wall was undermined by the excavation, and it toppled over.
This reminds me of an article the City Paper ran back in Sept. on new development causing older houses to collapse. See this link for an excerpt from the article.
There was lots of room for the house to fall over (and it pretty much did actually fall over -it's an old wood framed house). The condo building was to the side of the house, but set back. It was the one story building that collapsed. I'm not sure when the other building was demolished, but it doesn't appear in the video.
Ok, I think I was wrong in that last comment. I checked & both structures with redboards were part of the same house. I think the one story thing came from the fact that only the one story portion was visible to the reporter. I don't think they had demolished the taller portion of the house, & I don't think they had permission to do so (I'm pretty sure they didn't own it). By the way, the house's build date is given as 1900 (which probably means that it is older than that, since pre-1900 records just say "1900" in this database).
Brian,
More condos (assuming they can get their act together).
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