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National Union Building<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

918 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penn Quarter + Chinatown<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Penn Quarter and Chinatown, located on the DC metro red, green, and yellow lines<\/a>, are home to many restaurants, museums, park spaces, theaters, and other entertainment venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will be sharing our WCDC organizer favorites in the upcoming weeks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Building History<\/h3>\n\n\n

When the National Union Fire Insurance Company chose 918 F Street, NW to build their new headquarters, the area [now referred to as Penn Quarter<\/a>] was already a vibrant downtown.<\/p>\n

The building at 918 F Street Northwest would help launch the career of a 35-year-old local architect named Glenn Brown. The cast stone Romanesque facade has many beautiful details of this classical style: rustication, hierarchy of order in arches, and fluted pendants framing the building\u2019s core where the original owners proudly displayed their name: National Union Building.<\/p>\n

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“National Union Building, 1935,” HABS photograph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The building wasn\u2019t just beautiful: for 1890 it was thoroughly modern. Responding to the owners\u2019 need to ensure the building was fireproof, Brown built in steel, making this one of the earliest examples of steel framing in the nation, and possibly the first in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The building\u2019s core was the elevator, already commonplace in multistory buildings in New York and Chicago, but relatively uncommon in the nation\u2019s capital. Additionally, the original pipes throughout the building (you can see them on a visit!) demonstrate gas lighting was readily available at every floor.<\/p>\n

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“Shafted,” Geoff Livingston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The National Register of Historic Places recognized the National Union Building in 1990 as worthy of preservation. Along with several historic buildings on F Street, NW, the National Union Building adds to the charm and beauty of late 19th-century architecture that makes the Penn Quarter DC\u2019s historical and cultural downtown.<\/p>\n

From the National Union Building main site https:\/\/www.nationalunionbuilding.com\/history\/<\/a><\/p>\n

More information can be found at the DC Preservation site, https:\/\/historicsites.dcpreservation.org\/items\/show\/420<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Union Building 918 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004 Penn Quarter + Chinatown Penn Quarter and Chinatown, located on the DC metro red, green, and yellow lines, are home to many restaurants, museums, park spaces, theaters, and other entertainment venues. We will be sharing our WCDC organizer favorites in the upcoming weeks! Building History … Continue reading “Location”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9618246,"featured_media":313,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9618246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}