Moran Building
- Year
- 1889
- Style
- Second Empire
- City
- Washington, DC
The Moran Building is a Second Empire style commercial building at 501-509 G Street NW, built in 1889 by local builder J.E. Moran. Its National Register nomination calls it one of the last remaining commercial buildings in that style in Washington, a small vernacular structure built with exceptional verve during the expansive optimism of the 1880s.
the building
A building of many uses. Over its history the building has served as a meeting hall, a restaurant, a specialty store, and ordinary commercial business space.
the style
Built in the Second Empire style just as the fashion was fading in Washington, the building was among the last commercial structures raised in that idiom in the city, according to its National Register nomination.
More on Second Empiresignificance
The Moran Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 for its architecture; at the time it was vacant.
nearby
- Bulletin Building
- National Building Museum
- Surratt, Mary House
- Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
- Robert and Arlene Kogod Courtyard
- Patent Office (National Portrait Gallery & National Museum of American Art)