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| Keywords: Lansburgh-furniture-building.jpg en The Lansburgh Building also known as the Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co Inc or Old Masonic Temple located at 901 F Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington D C The French Renaissance Revival building was designed by architects Cluss Adolf Cluss Kammerheuber in 1867 It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property to the Downtown Historic District Currently the Lansburgh serves as commercial space A McCormick Schmick's is located on the ground level The Julius Lansburgh Furniture Company purchased the Old Masonic Temple in 1921 and gradually remodeled the interior by replacing the ground-floor facade with large plate-glass display windows and removing or covering much of the original cast-iron ornamentation to lower maintenance costs After Lansburgh's closed in 1970 the building sat vacant for thirty years crumbling even as preservationists fought to save it from a 1979 demolition The building received a new lease on life in 2000 as the carefully restored Washington headquarters of the Gallup Organization Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA http //www loc gov/pictures/resource/hhh dc0161 photos 027029p/ Historic American Buildings Survey - Cluss Kammerauber - Johnson Andrew - French B B hhh DC-218 FoP-US DC-218 National Register of Historic Places in Washington D C | ||||
