BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Penn Qtr -- Greyhound Bus Station (1100 New York Ave NW)

DC -- Penn Qtr -- Greyhound Bus Station (1100 New York Ave NW):

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1. GREY_970811_01.JPG: NY Ave Greyhound Bus Terminal This Greyhound bus terminal building was built on New York Avenue in 1939-40. By the early 1970's, it was in a run-down condition but it was saved from being torn down by the Art Deco Society of Washington. It was renovated and reopened as a museum in 1991.
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Description of Subject Matter: Greyhound Bus Station

This building, a blend of vintage and new, is the successful outcome of a lengthy battle waged by the Art Deco Society of Washington and others to save an historic Art Deco design that had been hidden away and forgotten.

The original bus terminal epitomized the era's streamlined Moderne style, evoking the efficiency and adventure of travel. It was "modernized" in 1976 by being encased in a cheap covering of indifferent design and then closed in 1987. Preservationists first had to pioneer the concept of landmarking a structure that could not actually be seen and then insist on new construction that would adapt its distinctive features to a new commercial use.

The first 42 feet of the former Greyhound Terminal remain meticulously restored and serve the "1100 New York Avenue" office building as lobby and storefronts. Inside is an information desk adapted from the ticket booth and an explanatory display open on weekdays.

Current Name and Location:

1100 New York Avenue incorporating the former Greyhound Terminal
1100 New York Avenue, N. W.
Washington, D. C.

Development:

Constructed 1940: Wischmeyer, Arrasmith & Elswick, architects (Louisville, Kentucky)
Redeveloped 1991: Keys Condon Florance Eichbaum Esocoff King, architects; Manufacturers Life Insurance Company, developers

The above was from http://www.adsw.org/site/DC/NW/NewYorkAve/1100/index.html :
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1997 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland. From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera. From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on). In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year. In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded. Image quality is going to be variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints. The images shown here were scanned in two phases. In the early years of the website, I rescanned a selection of pre-digital images, all at fairly low quality settings. During the COVID pandemic, I launched the Great Rescanning Effort, rescanning ALL of my pre-digital images from various media (prints, slides, negatives, etc) at higher resolution and quality settings. Mutilple versions of images -- some from the initial scannning phase, some from prints, some from slides/negatives -- were posted so there are frequently duplicate images on the same page. At some point, I hope to have time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates but that'll have to wait until all of the pre-digital images are finally posted. Trips this year: North Carolina (Dad), Florida (Mom), using a time share in Arkansas to visit Civil War sites in Missouri, Georgia, Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The Civil War became my excuse to see places I'd never been to in my life and it was a great motivator for 20 years or so.
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