Author: Katja Sipple, MA, MIS

Matthew Ruppert Saloon

"Matthew Ruppert had emigrated from Herbstein, Germany as a boy and joined the Marines at age twenty-one,…

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1003 7th Street Northwest

Mercantile Savings Bank

"The building housing the former Mercantile Savings Bank at 10th Street and G Place, N.W. was designed by the…

G Pl NW & 10th St NWWashington

Metropolitan Hook and Ladder Company Fire Engine House

" Clust's first completed building was the Metropolitan Hook and Ladder Company's fire engine house.…

438 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest

National Archives Research Center

"National Archives and Records Administration building from the North (from the Navy Memorial), with view of…

(866) 272-6272
700 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest

Officer's Quarters at Washington Barracks

"On his 1889 list of public buildings designed by him, Cluss mentions "numerous buildings for U.S. Artillery…

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P Street Southwest & 4th Street Southwest

Old Patent Office Building

"Cluss and Schulze's new Model Hall introduced a new structural system designed to improve the fireproofing…

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8th Street Northwest & F Street Northwest

Oriental Building Association

"At 600 F Street, NW stood the OBA (Oriental Building Association) Federal Savings & Loan Association…

600 F Street Northwest

Original Adas Israel Synagogue Site

First site of the Adas Synagouge, the first synagouge in Washington DC and a synagouge founded by…

(202) 789-0900
701 3rd Street Northwest

Oscar S. Straus Memorial Fountain

"The fountain, designed by German-American architect Adolph Alexander Weinman and constructed in 1947, was…

14th Street

National Building Museum Frieze

"This 1200-foot-long and 3-foot high frieze was made for the Pension Building, built to house the offices…

(202) 272-2448
401 F Street Northwest