Maxime Leforestier's Blue House

The Victorian building at thirty-eight forty-one Eighteenth Street is painted a vibrant, unmistakable blue. It stands out in the neighborhood as a site of pilgrimage for French travelers, who know the structure as La Maison Bleue. This residence gained its status in the early nineteen seventies when a young singer named Maxime Le Forestier spent a summer living here with a community of friends.