Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store
- Architects
- John Gerard Raben John Stokes Redden
- Year
- 1941
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Washington, DC
The Sears, Roebuck & Company Department Store at 4500 Wisconsin Avenue NW, also known as the Cityline Building, is a 1941 Moderne building designed by John Stokes Redden and John G. Raben. It opened October 2, 1941, transforming Tenleytown with its size and a 300-car rooftop parking lot, and was later converted into the mixed-use Cityline at Tenley development.
the building
Rooftop parking. At its 1941 opening the store was notable for its scale and for a 300-car rooftop parking lot, an unusual feature that signaled the building's orientation toward automobile-era shopping on Wisconsin Avenue.
the style
Designed in the Moderne style, the building used streamlined massing suited to a large-format 1940s department store rather than historical ornament.
More on Streamline Modernesignificance
Added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 16, 1996, the building later housed Hechinger hardware, hosted the second Art-O-Matic festival in 2000, and was converted in the 2000s into Cityline at Tenley, with condos above street-level retail and parking below.
nearby
- Jesse Reno School
- Ponce de Leon Apartment Building
- Intelsat headquarters
- Slayton, William L., House (and Interior)
- Sedgwick Gardens
- Washington Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Saint Peter & Saint Paul & Close; National Cathedral)