About the Cady-Lee
 Chandelier in Morning Room |
The Cady-Lee is a fully restored 19th-century home on the National Register of Historic Places.
This magnificent Queen Anne Victorian, a National Register Historic Property, was built in 1887. It was designed by the prominent turn-of-the-19th-century architect Leon Dessez, who also designed the Admiralty House, now the official residence of the Vice President of the United States. Fully restored between 2000 and 2001 by Frances Phipps, a Takoma Park resident and award-winning restoration expert, the 3-story Cady-Lee has 22 rooms, 50 windows, 7 gables and a turreted sleeping porch. It boasts 12-foot ceilings, carved oak moldings, six original mantels and a Tiffany-style stained glass window on the landing of the two-story oak staircase. It sits on half an acre of land at the Piney Branch Road/Eastern Avenue gateway to the District of Columbia.
On the first floor, an elegant foyer leads to a library lined with soaring carved bookcases; to a front parlor with its original cherry mantel and overmantel; and to a dining room with a Chinese Chippendale style mantel and a rare, decorative radiator, recognized by the Smithsonian Institute as one of the few remaining of its kind. At the back of the house on the first floor, a kitchen with a cast-iron wood burning stove is complemented by a sun-filled morning room, complete with a handpainted mural of an English garden. The parlor, dining room, morning room and library are furnished to serve as meeting spaces.
An oak staircase leads to the second floor, composed of five large rooms, one with a working fireplace, and a full bath.
The third floor, accessed by a separate staircase near the back of the house, contains six rooms, a kitchen and a bath.
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About the Cady-Lee