The Way of the Cross Church bought the distinctive Gothic Revival church building, built in 1916, at 819 D St. NE in 1963 after their previous home was condemned for highway construction. Over 50 years later, looking to expand their campus, the church decided to sell but could not find another church interested the building and in 2016 sold the building to the Rubin Group for conversion to condos. Because it is in the Capitol Hill Historic District, the Historic Preservation Review Board reviewed the plans and paid particular attention to the repair of the windows, which were restored by craftsmen in Pennsylvania. Bonstra Haresign Architects took on the tricky project of converting worship space to residential space; the church building, now known as The Sanctuary, has 26 units and there are four more in the two attached row houses.

In 2017, one of the units sold for $1,525,000, making the highest priced condo sold in Northeast DC since 2008.

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For more information on these historic sites, go to the restoration society’s web page for the walking tour at http://chrs.org/historic-sites-tour-2020/

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

Sitting still, posted earlier: