Westory Building
- Style
- Beaux-Arts
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
The Westory Building in downtown Washington, D.C. began as a structure designed by architect Henry L.A. Jekel and built in 1907-08 in the Beaux-Arts style. Shalom Baranes Associates added an expansion, completed in 1990, bringing the building to twelve stories above ground, 155.62 feet tall, with three stories below grade. It was listed on the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites and the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
the building
Old front, new tower. The present twelve-story building is an expansion of Jekel's original structure, with Shalom Baranes Associates' 1990 addition rising above and behind the historic Beaux-Arts facade and three additional stories dug in below ground.
the style
The surviving portion is Henry L.A. Jekel's 1907-08 Beaux-Arts design, its formal classical vocabulary preserved at street level beneath the later addition.
More on Beaux-Artsthe architect
Henry L.A. Jekel designed the original 1907-08 building; the 1990 expansion above it was designed by the firm Shalom Baranes Associates.
significance
Listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites and the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
nearby
- Federal-American National Bank
- Second National Bank
- Commercial National Bank
- Chase's Theater and Riggs Building
- Bond Building
- Church of the Epiphany