Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- d.c. deco
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse and Repair Facility is an Art Deco industrial building built in 1927 at 1111 North Capitol Street NE, in the NoMa neighborhood, originally housing the phone company's fleet of repair trucks and its telephone overhaul shop. The historic facade was preserved and built into National Public Radio's fourth headquarters, a new office tower that opened in April 2013.
the building
Facade retained behind a new tower. Rather than demolish the building, developers kept its Art Deco facade and constructed a new 10- to 12-story office tower behind it to house NPR's headquarters.
the style
As an industrial warehouse rather than a public-facing building, its Art Deco treatment was applied more modestly than on contemporary downtown office buildings, but it still marks the style's reach into utilitarian architecture of the late 1920s.
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The warehouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. It was later leased, with an option to purchase, by the Smithsonian Institution, before being redeveloped as NPR's headquarters, which opened in April 2013.
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