2300 16TH

A 2016 revision to the original proposal includes 110 luxury condominium units, lobby, fitness room, bike storage, non-profit meeting space and a two-level underground parking garage offering approximately 90 spaces:

The original proposal for the project called for combining lot 806 (the landmark lot occupied by the White-Meyer House) and lot 808 (the parking lot), and constructing a nine story apartment building that would contain approximately 130 residential units and 8,650 square feet of meeting space for Meridian. The building is built into and atop the existing berm in order to retain the grade and mature trees within the 16th Street public space, with the primary residential entrance at the corner of 16th and Belmont. The vehicular and service entrance would be off Belmont, accessing two levels of below-grade parking. The building would have nine floors above the retained berm on 16th Street, and step down to six floors on Crescent. The materials of the new building would include stone for the retaining wall, two gradations of buff brick and metal cladding for the walls surfaces, metal detailing and glass rail balconies. White-Meyer would connect through an underground passage, and would include a conference facility below a new lawn area on the east side of the house. The project is intended to provide Meridian not only with improved meeting facilities but funds to allow it to continue its on-going restoration of the landmarks in accordance with a preservation plan prepared in 2005 by Archetype, and to establish an endowment for the properties’ long-term maintenance. Over the past ten years, Meridian has completed a number of substantial restoration and rehabilitation projects, and was presented with a District of Columbia historic preservation award for Excellence in Stewardship in 2013.

The White-Meyer House is an historic residence located at 1624 Crescent Place NW at Meridian Hill Park. The home was designed by Architect John Russell Pope for Ambassador Henry White and completed in 1917. In 1934, the house was sold to Eugene Meyer, who remodeled and sold it to the current owner, Meridian International Center, a non-profit, in 1987. The Meridian House is located at 1630 Crescent PlaceNW in the Meridian Hill neighborhood of Washington DC. Like the White-Meyer House, it was designed by acclaimed American architect John Russell Pope and built three years after White-Meyer, in 1920, for Ambassador Irwin Boyle Laughlin. The home remained in Laughlin family until 1960, when it was purchased by the Meridian International Center.