I used to live in and do construction work in DC in the 1980s and 1990s. I helped to turn several Victorian homes which were unihabitable shit filled ruins back into the gorgeous showpieces they once were. They don't build houses with craftsmanship and materials like that anymore. Discussions about gentrification often miss the point that mansions like in a movie and other cool buildings that can be renovated and repurposed can be had for a low price if the neighborhood is on the skids, and once they are fixed up the ball is rolling. Historic preservation drives up the price of all real estate, and according to the information in the Washington Post article about the closing of the beautiful Italianate Romanesque Lincoln Temple, the run down historic church was worth 3 million bucks in 2018. The article also said that the kiss of death for the church was a change in parking laws by the DC city government since they didn't have a lot. When they built the church most of the congregants didn't have cars, but that has quite obviously changed. A lot of the DC church congregants moved to the suburbs and took their churches with them, and there is also the fact that old time religion is not exactly a growth industry these days. The Lincoln Temple building is now the Shaw Community Center and still affiliated with the Church of Christ. It hasn't been turned into a yuppie vegan restaurant...yet.