Sites tagged "Art Deco": 19
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General Baking Company Bakery (Bond Bread Factory)
The General Baking Company's Bond Bread Factory is an Art Deco-style industrial building. Constructed in 1929 to the designs of architect Corry B. Comstock, the building's style, quality craftsmanship, and decorative detailing are rare for the…
Munson Hall Apartments
With the increasing demand to house federal employees and their families, Munson Hall's conventional high-rise style maximized space and affordability for its residents. The interwar period following the Great Depression made Foggy Bottom an…
The Keystone
With the continued and rapid population growth in D.C. between world wars, buildings like the Keystone were necessary and an economic solution to house workers and their families. The Keystone's conventional-high rise style maximized the amount of…
The Everglades Apartment Building
Constructed in 1939, the Everglades Apartment Building was one of many apartment buildings established to fit DC's growing population in the interwar period. It is the work of developer Harry M. Bralove, one of Washington’s leaders in apartment…
Tower Building
The Tower Building is a twelve-story office building of steel construction and limestone veneer. Robert F. Beresford designed the building, as well as the architectural firms Bates Warren, WDG Architecture, PLLC, and Harkins Builders, Inc. Completed…
Park Tower
Park Tower illustrates the significant effort expended at the beginning of the twentieth century to develop Sixteenth Street as a prestigious avenue; this was a fashionable address for congressmen, professionals, and other notables during the…
The Kennedy-Warren
In February 1931, D.C. Permit to Build #140167 was issued to Kennedy-Warren, Inc. to erect an eight-story apartment hotel at an estimated cost of $3,200,000. Architect Joseph Younger's original design of the Art Deco-style Kennedy-Warren apartment…
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Founded in 1883, Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company provided telephone service to Washington, DC and eventually Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. The construction of this building in 1928 allowed the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone…
Western Union Telegraph Company (Washington Radio Terminal)
The Western Union Telegraph Company Tenley Radio Terminal is a landmark in engineering history. Built between 1945 and 1947, it served as a transmission and receiving station in an experimental radio relay triangle connecting New York, Philadelphia,…