Wander the streets of our nation’s capital and also you’re certain to come across a digital rainbow of macaron-hued row homes with proudly protruding bays and fanciful turrets. Washington, DC’s Bloomingdale neighborhood isn’t any exception. Developed between 1890 and 1912, it boasts a number of the extra preserved examples of late Victorian and early-Twentieth-century housing types within the district. Nonetheless, that they’re intact doesn’t essentially imply they’re inhabitable, as householders Andrew Smith and Carl Holshouser found once they obtained a glance contained in the 1906 brick row home that might turn out to be their residence.

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Naturally, artwork figures prominently all through. Modernist wooden sculptures by late masters like Ben Osawe and Lamidi Olonade Fakeye mingle with items from Wiley’s pals, protégés, and fellow luminaries. A formidable bronze bust from the artist’s 2015 Brooklyn Museum retrospective towers over the eating space. A provocative Mickalene Thomas {photograph} beckons within the entryway, whereas a self-portrait by the Ghanaian phenom Amoako Boafo stares throughout the lounge at a figurative work by the Nigerian rising star Collins Obijiaku. (A passionate champion of fellow artists, Wiley will quickly open a second Black Rock outpost,