Bulletin Building
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- d.c. deco
The Bulletin Building is an Art Deco commercial building at 717 6th Street NW in Chinatown, designed by the firm Rodier & Kundzin and built in 1928 for the United Publishing Company. It housed the printing trade for 60 years, a history commemorated on its own facade.
the building
Bas-relief panels. The limestone main facade carries four Art Deco bas-relief panels depicting the printing trade the building was built to house.
the style
The Art Deco detailing is concentrated in the facade's carved limestone panels, a decorative program that doubles as a record of the building's original industrial use.
More on Art Decosignificance
The Bulletin Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. The building later housed a restaurant and nightclub from 2015 until 2023.
nearby
- Moran Building
- Surratt, Mary House
- Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
- National Building Museum
- Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard
- Patent Office (National Portrait Gallery & National Museum of American Art)