Passing by Thurman Avenue, four-family flats dominated the streetscape of Botanical Avenue in this section of the Shaw neighborhood.

But it is bracketed with this two-family right on the corner, above.

Many of the two-families are just simply cut in half versions of the four-families, as well, showing that developers reused designs quickly as they built up these blocks.

However, there are some on-off houses that were built individually, such as the one below, showing that not everything was tract housing.

Then there are these exceptional four-families, all probably with the same general floor plan, but with carefully individualized exteriors.

On the southwest corner is this house, with what is clearly a missing cornice on the top of those two engaged columns over the front doorway. There is also a missing pediment over the front door. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an actual portico with two columns projecting from the front.