BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Penn Qtr -- Sun Building (1317 F St NW)

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Wikipedia Description: The Sun Building
This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

The 116-foot Sun Building in Washington, D.C. doesn’t appear particularly noteworthy to contemporary audiences. The building is neither grand nor unsightly, and office workers who pass through the doorway might wonder what could possibly justify the National Register for Historic Places plaque bolted to the facade.
Jump back in time to 1887, the year the Sun Building was completed, and you wouldn’t have had any questions about the newsworthiness of the occasion. “The Sun Building marks, it is believed, a new era of building in Washington” gushed the headlines. It was “the most imposing private structure at the national capital … an example of beauty, strength, and proportion unexcelled even by the public structures of the government.”
This was the first skyscraper in Washington, a nascent architectural style that did away with load bearing masonry walls in lieu of stronger and lighter iron framing.
The juxtaposition of the Sun Building’s diminutive height and its lofty label as a “skyscraper” is a matter of technicalities, and it’s an amusing reflection of the low-skyline norms that dominate D.C. architecture.
The Sun Building was designed by Treasury Department architect Alfred B. Mullet. The Baltimore Sun’s Washington bureau operated out of the ground floor, with the remaining space available for rent to other tenants. (Interestingly, decades later one of those tenants was J. Edgar Hoover’s newly created Federal Bureau of Investigation).
The exterior facade of the Sun Building is covered by suns and sunflowers, an early example of now-common corporate Architecture-As-Branding - think: Google Campus. The early skyscraper established the fact that the Baltimore Sun was the paper of note in the nation’s capital.
Some have gone so far as to suggest that the Sun Building is actually the oldest still-standing skyscraper in America. In 1987 the Washington Post published an Op ...More...
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2012 photos: Equipment this year: My mainstays were the Fuji S100fs, Nikon D7000, and the new Fuji X-S1. I also used an underwater Fuji XP50 and a Nikon D600. The first three cameras all broke this year and had to be repaired. Trips this year: three Civil War Trust conferences (Shepherdstown, WV, Richmond, VA, and Williamsburg, VA), a week-long family reunion cruise of the Caribbean, another week-long family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with lots of in-transit time in Ohio and Indiana), and my 7th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including side trips to Zion, Bryce, the Grand Canyon, etc). Ego strokes: I had a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post. I had a photograph of the George Segal San Francisco Holocaust memorial used as the cover of Quebec Francais (issue 165). Not being able to read French, I'm not entirely sure what the article is about but, hey! And I guess what could be considered to be a positive thing, my site is now established enough that spammers have noticed it and I had to block 17,000 file description postings for Viagra and whatever else.. Number of photos taken this year: just below 410,000.
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