Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: 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.

Survey number: HAER DC-65

Building/structure dates: 1926-1927 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1950-1951 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 06001159

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1969 - 1980

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