BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Penn Qtr -- Washington Bldg (15th and G St, NW)

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Description of Subject Matter: From https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/what-was-the-washington-building/2011/10/28/gIQA21sHTM_story.html

What was the Washington Building?
By John Kelly October 29, 2011

In the 1970s, I worked in the Washington Building at 15th and New York NW. Not until years later did I notice its frieze more carefully. It depicts various graphics that have me curious about the building’s original purpose and tenants. Was it ever a federal building or that of a national trade association? When recently in the area, I was surprised at how difficult it is to even find an open-to-the-public entrance.

— Kathleen O’Reilly,

There are many Washington buildings, but there is only one Washington Building. It opened in 1927 at a place its owners liked to call “The World Corner.” Fifteenth Street and New York Avenue NW, they claimed in a large display ad in The Washington Post, was an intersection of global importance.

“Indeed,” the ad trumpeted, “a great national weekly magazine states that more prominent people pass this corner than any other in the world. Its strategic location is as permanent as the Treasury, as vital as the White House.”

The building was designed by the Boston firm of Coolidge Shepley Bulfinch and Abbott. The design is “stylized Classical Revival,” with large, three-story arches and fluted piers. It is ringed by what Answer Man considers a rather subtle frieze, given the expanse of limestone it decorates.

The frieze is made up of a repeating series of individual circular bas-reliefs. Some are easily recognizable. There is a telephone, the kind with a separate mouthpiece (old-fashioned now but cutting-edge then). There is a sheaf of wheat. There is the head of a bull and a piece of lab equipment known as a retort. Other details include an hourglass, a lever, a torch atop an open book, and what appears to be an urn or possibly a pharmacist’s vessel.

Answer Man is pretty sure these had no connection to specific Washington Building tenants. Rathe ...More...
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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