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Photo: Philip Seaton Photography |
Twenty-five Forty
Massachusetts Avenue
2540 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC
Karchem's Role: Project Manager
For: Twenty-five Forty Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Cooperative
Size: 6 stories, 35 units, 81,600 SF with below-grade parking
Budget: $3 million
Year Built: 1926
For this luxury property, Karchem Properties was retained to prepare a building condition survey and to develop a program for effectively maintaining and managing the cooperative's improvements. As a result of our work, we were engaged on an ongoing basis to advise the Cooperative Board on property operations and improvements as well as on modifications to units. As part of our overall property review, Karchem Properties investigated wireless communication services and later coordinated the procurement and installation of a roof-top satellite by AT&T. In addition, we evaluated options to upgrade electrical service and to expand parking below grade.
Originally, the building was called the Army Navy because seventeen Army officers, who were the cooperative's first shareholders, selected the site. Assigned to the Department of War, these men commissioned Monroe Warren to develop the property and provide a garage for seventeen cars. Harry L. Edwards designed the building in the Georgian Revival style consistent with nearby homes.
Army Navy is listed as no. 72 in Best Addresses, A Century of Washington's Distinguished Apartment Houses written by James M. Goode and published by Smithsonian Books. In Chapter 3, The Boom Period, 1919-1931, the property's prominent features are noted: "the imposing entrance, with its rusticated limestone surround and iron and glass marquee, and the pair of projecting pavilions."
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