United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners-Local 132 building
- Style
- Chicago School
- City
- Washington, DC
The Carpenters Building at 1010 10th Street, NW (also addressed as 1001 K Street), was built in 1926 as the headquarters of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Local 132 and was believed at the time to be the largest building owned by a local union anywhere in the country. The eight-story brick-and-limestone office tower, designed by architect O. Harvey Miller, follows the tall-building principles Louis Sullivan established for the Chicago School.
the building
A union's own skyscraper. Local 132 built and owned the eight-story tower outright, a statement of the carpenters' union's financial strength in 1926. The local sold the building in 1980.
the style
Designed in the Chicago School idiom, following Louis Sullivan's approach to the tall office building, expressed here in brick and limestone.
More on Chicago Schoolthe architect
O. Harvey Miller designed the Carpenters Building, working in the Chicago School tradition established by Louis Sullivan for tall office buildings.
significance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 17, 2003.
nearby
- American Federation of Labor
- Greyhound Bus Terminal
- Franklin, Benjamin, School (& Interiors)
- Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes
- Central Public Library (Carnegie Library)
- Engine Company No. 16/Truck Company No. 3