12 Foot Wide, 3 Story Home Turns Heads In DC?

The 2-bedroom, 1.5-bath
row-house-without-a-row somehow manages to look surprisingly roomy and modern,
thanks to some clever interior customization.

The floor plans show an indoor footprint of just about 12 feet wide at its
widest by about 26 feet. The lot size is listed at 423 square feet, which means
WYSIWYG when it comes to a yard -- a pocket garden in the front, nothing in the
back. Yet the house manages to eke out nearly 1,300 square feet of living space
spread over three levels, and that's not including what Lewis calls a
"potential" rooftop deck (buyers to verify that potential, of course).

It's situated on an awkward piece of land on a triangular block in D.C.'s
Shaw/U Street corridor. The house was built in 1910, and it's showing its age in
places, particularly along one exterior wall coated in tar. (Click any of the
photos here to go to a slideshow that includes a photo of that wall.) Lewis
doesn't know the history of the place, but he says the neighborhood was heavily
hit by the 1968 riots, and he speculates that a once-abutting building fell
victim to blight and was demolished.