Old Post Office Pavilion
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Old Post Office and Clock Tower
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The Old Post Office Pavilion
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| Location | Washington, D.C. |
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| Coordinates | 38°53′38.32″N 77°1′40.71″W / 38.8939778°N 77.0279750°WCoordinates: 38°53′38.32″N 77°1′40.71″W / 38.8939778°N 77.0279750°W |
| Built | 1892 to 1899 |
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Willoughby J. Edbrooke (original building) Karn Charuhas Chapman & Twohey (East Atrium) |
| Architectural style |
Romanesque Revival (original building) Modernist (East Atrium) |
| Part of | Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site (#66000865) |
| NRHP Reference # | 73002105 |
| Added to NRHP | April 11, 1973 |
The Old Post Office Pavilion, historically known as the Old Post Office and Clock Tower, located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. was completed in 1899, and is a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site. It was used as the city's main post office until 1914. It functioned primarily as an office building afterward, and was nearly torn down during the construction of the Federal Triangle complex in the 1920s. It was nearly demolished again in the 1970s to make way for completion of the Federal Triangle. Major renovations occurred in 1976 and 1983. The 1983 renovation added a food court and retail space and the building was renamed the Old Post Office Pavilion. An addition was added to the structure in 1991. In 2013, the U.S. General Services Administration leased the property for 60 years to a consortium headed by "DJT Holdings LLC", a holding company owned by Donald Trump through a revocable trust.
Trump developed the property into a luxury hotel, Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. which opened in September 2016.
The building is an example of Richardsonian Romanesque, part of the Romanesque Revival architecture of the nineteenth century United States.
The United States Congress approved construction of a new post office for Washington, D.C., on June 25, 1890. The site, at the southwest corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 12th Street, was chosen by Senator Leland Stanford in 1888 in the hope that the building would revitalize the Murder Bay neighborhood between the Capitol building and the White House. The structure was designed in the Romanesque Revival style (some classify it as Richardsonian Romanesque) by Willoughby J. Edbrooke, Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. Construction began in 1892, and the building was complete in 1899. The total cost of construction was $3 million.
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