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Hyattsville Area Home Receives New Life Courtesy of Architect Couple

A pyramid shaped house in an unincorporated area next to University Park is being renovated by a husband and wife team of architects.

Architects Marc and Madlen Simon are renovating a Hyattsville area home with a unique backstory, according to an article in Friday's Washington Post.

The house was originally built in the 1970s by two University of Maryland colleagues of the Simons for a Washington couple named Peter and Nora Lejins. The Lejins were amateur horticultarists that filled the home and land with plant specimens they had collected from around the world.

To satiate their hobby, the original architects built the house with a massive solarium in the front that receives light from the pyramid roof and a hulking front bay window. The ground in the atrium is filled with a bed of soil.

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After the death of the Lejins, who had no children, the house sat on the market for four years and progressively deterioriated. Until in 2010 when the Simon's bought it as a "labor-of-love". In one year, they have managed to renovate the space into something that looks both beautiful and comfortable in the pictures taken by Post photographer John McDonnell.

The full Washington Post article can be found here - "Architect couple meet their match in Hyattsville house" - By Amanda Abrams

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Editor's Note: The original article stated this was a home in Hyattsville, however it is in fact outside the city's limits in an unincorporated area next to University Park.

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