Central National Bank Building, 631 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Significance: The Central National Bank Building has stood at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and C Street since the mid-1860's. Originally a simple trapezoidal Renaissance Revival building, it is an early example of fire resistant construction in Washington. In 1887 the Central National Bank assumed ownership of the hotel and commissioned architect Alfred B. Mullett to design an addition to the west facade. Mullett's design included the erection of two distinctive corner towers. The St. Marc Hotel, and the buildings surrounding it, express a common scale and image of late Nineteenth Century commercial Washington at its height.
Survey number: HABS DC-229
Building/structure dates: ca. 1888 Initial Construction