Central National Bank
- Architect
- Alfred B. Mullett
- Year
- 1860
- Style
- Victorian
- City
- Washington, DC
Built in 1860 at 633 Pennsylvania Avenue NW as the St. Marc Hotel, this building was purchased by the Central National Bank, whose west front was redesigned in 1887 by architect Alfred B. Mullett. It now houses the National Council of Negro Women's headquarters and is known as the Dorothy I. Height Building, or Apex Building.
the building
Later tenants. The Apex Liquor store leased the ground floor starting in 1945, and Sears renovated the building in 1984 before it took on its current name and role as NCNW headquarters.
the style
Late Victorian in style, the product of Mullett's 1887 remodeling of the bank's facade.
the architect
Alfred B. Mullett, who redesigned the building's west front in 1887, was a prominent 19th-century federal architect.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a contributing property to both the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and the Downtown Historic District.
nearby
- Federal Trade Commission Building
- Canadian Chancery
- National Archives
- National Gallery of Art
- Old City Hall (District of Columbia Court of Appeals)
- Henry J. Daly Building