File:EXTERIOR ELEVATION - 625 Indiana Avenue Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Columbia, DC HABS DC,WASH,187-2.tif

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EXTERIOR ELEVATION - 625 Indiana Avenue Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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EXTERIOR ELEVATION - 625 Indiana Avenue Northwest (Commercial Building), Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS DC,WASH,187-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: This small pro-Civil War store building, With a frontage of 23'-4, has a brick and cast-iron facade of attractive character, now in deteriorating condition. The first story has two intermediate cast-iron piers between corner piers of brick. These are original but the glazing is modern. Above this arc brick corner pilasters, paneled on the face, with cast-iron capitals of modified Corinthianesque character, whose acanthus leaves have an S-curved profile of pronounced curvature. On the left corner only a half pilaster remains.

There are three windows at the second story, the central one round-arched. It is glazed with four-light casements and transom. The others are segmental arched, with three-light casements and transom. The openings have ornamental cast-iron hood molds and wood sills.

At the third story the windows are segmental arched are provided with similar hood moulds. At the top is a bracketed cast-iron cornice. The roof is flat.

  • Survey number: HABS DC-230
  • Building/structure dates: after 1840 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0064.photos.027122p
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Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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