Chevy Chase house was redesigned in 1970s by Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Listen 3 min Share Comment on this story Comment About 50 years after Hugh Newell Jacobsen, a famed modernist architect, renovated this house in Ch...
Listen 3 min Share Comment on this story Comment About 50 years after Hugh Newell Jacobsen, a famed modernist architect, renovated this house in Chevy Chase Village, Md., it remains largely unchanged — a marriage of Victorian design and his signature egg-crate bookcases, high ceilings and oversize windows. Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight The house, on a corner lot at 17 West Irving St., was built in 1871 as a carriage house for a residence that no longer stands. Robert and Judith Elliott bought the property in 1975 despite the house's turquoise exterior, according to a 1988 American Institute of Architects Press article.