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17-Oct-2020

130 D Street SE

Another garage door mural. I wish we had a garage because if we did, I’d love to have something like this painted on it.

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The Capitol Hill Restoration Society is offering a new walking tour, this time featuring murals around the Hill, about which they say:

“Capitol Hill is home to many dazzling (some, quite literally) works of art, painted on the exteriors of homes and businesses. Some murals are well known to the community – but we’ve included them because we love them and the Mural Tour wouldn’t be complete without them. Others may be familiar only to their immediate neighbors. Several of them have been on view for decades but many are more recent, including those that are part of the DC Statehood Murals project. A couple are on the sidewalk. One is not actually a mural at all but it’s art on the exterior of a structure, so no reason not to give it the attention it deserves. … Art is always best appreciated in person; particularly true in this case where the scale and placement of the work made photography a challenge.”

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

235 F Street NE, posted earlier:

Apple iPhone 11 Pro
1/300s f/2.0 at 6.0mm iso20 full exif

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carol j. phipps02-Nov-2020 22:06
Oh wow! Wonderful idea for a garage door. Vote
Don24-Oct-2020 21:35
Houses within houses. Your home owners are far more creative than the city 'fathers' that named the streets!
Julie Oldfield24-Oct-2020 17:05
It definitely turns the ordinary into the spectacular. V
janescottcumming23-Oct-2020 18:09
That’s a nice way to dress up a garage door! V
Blandine Mangin23-Oct-2020 16:59
jolie fresque murale ! v
Jean D23-Oct-2020 15:59
Very lovely captured of this garage door mural with such fine artistic work. ~V
bill friedlander23-Oct-2020 14:30
A fabulous mural so intricately done. V
Hank Vander Velde23-Oct-2020 14:19
Nice door mural well captured Helen.
Nick Paoni23-Oct-2020 13:33
What a great way to add interest to an otherwise simply functional portal. Such creativity.
hayl23-Oct-2020 12:35
What a terrific thing to do to a boring garage door.
John Hamers23-Oct-2020 10:57
Great idea to decorate a garage door with such a beautiful mural. Great capture. !V
Graeme23-Oct-2020 10:19
This is a gorgeous mural find, Helen. V
Industrial Heritage23-Oct-2020 09:32
What a beautiful garage door.
Raymond Ma23-Oct-2020 04:32
What an attractive way to decorate a garage door...lovely illustrations of the row of character houses.
I wonder if Marian would let me paint our garage door? :0) V
David Buzzeo23-Oct-2020 04:31
We have a garage door but the Condo Board would be on us in a heartbeat if we even changed the colour of our door. Painting something as beautiful as your photo would result in a letter from a lawyer, V
Dennis Hoyne23-Oct-2020 03:40
Maybe I should paint something on my garage door, A summer project!
joseantonio23-Oct-2020 03:39
a lovely painting to decorate that garage door.V.
William Barletta23-Oct-2020 02:29
The mural is painted into a perfect frame ~V~
globalgadabout23-Oct-2020 01:53
perhaps the owner drives a Suburban..
Jola Dziubinska23-Oct-2020 00:15
Very pretty. V.