Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse and Repair Facility
1111 N. Capitol St. NE, Washington, District of Columbia
Description
The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephone Company in the first half of the twentieth century. The warehouse is also representative of fireproof, concrete warehouse design and construction of the early twentieth century. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
-- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER DC-65)
National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on May 14, 2007
- Reference number
- 06001159
- Architectural style
- Modern Movement: Art Deco
- Areas of significance
- Architecture; Commerce
- Level of significance
- Local
- Evaluation criteria
- A - Event; C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- Building
- Historic function
- Communications facility
- Current function
- Warehouse
- Periods of significance
- 1925-1949; 1950-1974
- Significant years
- 1925; 1950