The Sun Building (also known as the Baltimore Sun Building or American Bank Building) is a historic building, located at 1317 F Street,
Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the
Downtown Washington, D.C.
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest (Washington, D.C.), Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States. The "Traditional Downtown" has been defined as an area ...
neighborhood.
History
It was designed by
Alfred B. Mullett and constructed from 1885 to 1887, by John H. Howlett.
It was built for the Washington Bureau of the ''
Baltimore Sun
''The Baltimore Sun'' is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.
Founded in 1837, the newspaper was owned by Tribune Publish ...
''.
The nine-story building was served by steam elevators, which were replaced by hydraulics in 1909, and electric elevators in 1922. It was altered, in 1904 by
B. Stanley Simmons for the
American Bank.
In 1907, the ninth story was added as the Interstate Commerce Commission Hearing Room.
Tenants included the
Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads (and later Trucking industry in the United States, truc ...
,
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only History of the Democratic Party (United States), Democrat to serve as president during the Prog ...
's law firm,
Daniel C. Roper, and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic Intelligence agency, intelligence and Security agency, security service of the United States and Federal law enforcement in the United States, its principal federal law enforcement ag ...
.
The Sun Building was restored in 1983 by architects
Abel & Weinstein.
[G. Martin Moeller Jr., ''AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C.'' (Washington: Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 2006): 140.] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 1985. Its 2009 property value is $13,931,970.
See also
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Early skyscrapers
The earliest stage of skyscraper design encompasses buildings built between 1884 and 1945, predominantly in the American cities of New York City, New York and Chicago. Cities in the United States were traditionally made up of low-rise buildings, ...
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References
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{{National Register of Historic Places
Commercial buildings completed in 1887
Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Skyscraper office buildings in Washington, D.C.
1887 establishments in Washington, D.C.