National Metropolitan Bank
- Architect
- B. Stanley Simmons
- Year
- 1906
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
The National Metropolitan Bank Building went up between 1905 and 1907 on 15th Street NW, designed in the Beaux-Arts style by B. Stanley Simmons of the firm Gordon, Tracy & Swartout. In 1986 its facade was preserved and folded into a new office building, Metropolitan Square, designed by Vlastimil Koubek with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
the style
Beaux-Arts (c. 1880–1930): Gilded Age grandeur: paired giant columns, rough-cut stone bases, rooftop sculpture, and monumental stairs.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
B. Stanley Simmons designed the bank with the firm of Gordon, Tracy & Swartout, completed in 1907.
significance
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; its Beaux-Arts facade survives, incorporated into the 1986 Metropolitan Square office building.
nearby
- Chase's Theater and Riggs Building
- Treasury Department
- Hotel Washington
- Willard InterContinental Washington
- Commercial National Bank
- Westory Building