Yenching Palace Proposal

In December, 2006 Walgreens Pharmacy presented their plans to the ANC for a facade alteration and partial roof addition to the property at 3524 Connecticut Avenue.
Below are links to the pdfs of their drawings.
Revised Storefront, April 2007
View of Walgreens storefront
View of the streetscape
Details of the existing building
Details of proposed floor plan

December 27, 2006   NW Current article

December 19, 2006   ANC Resolution

A brief history of the Restaurant:  During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the Yenching Palace was one of the meeting sites of the personal intermediary of President John F. Kennedy and the Emissary of the Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev. It was at the last of these meetings held at the Yenching Palace that final terms were agreed upon which ended the crisis and avoided war. The ABC television hour-long documentary, "The Cuban Crisis," was filmed and narrated by reporter John Scali (later ambassador to the UN) at the Yenching Palace. Then, in 1971, when President Nixon initiated rapprochement discussions between the United States and the People's Republic of China, the Yenching Palace was chosen for diplomatic and social exchanges between Secretary of State Kissinger and representatives of the Chinese delegation.