Some Say It Was a Bakery. Now It’s a Family’s Loftlike Home Brimming With Vintage Decor

Eric Rosenthal and Jeffrey Menzer found each other after moving to D.C. in the mid-eighties. It was the early years of the AIDS crisis, and the two bonded over a shared zeal for political advocacy and health initiatives. In the decades after, Eric became a pediatrician and Jeffrey a nurse (he now runs his own public health consulting practice), and they lived in a small, crowded row house with their son in Capitol Hill.