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

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

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Summary

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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Date

1969 - 1980
person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company
National Public Radio
Jones, Bevan
McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin
Robinson, C. A.
McKenzie, Andrew
Voorhees, Stephen Francis
Gmelin, Paul
Charles H. Tompkins Company
Western Electric
Maynard, George C.
Bell Telephone
National Capital Telephone Company
Telephone Exchange Company
The National Telephone Exchange
Cafritz, Morris
Tompkins, Charles H
Baltimore Contractors Inc.
John I. Thompson Company
WB/BFP North Capitol Street, LLC
J Street Development
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Dempsey, Lori, sponsor
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
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Location

Washington, District of Columbia, United States38.90423, -77.00840
Google Map of 38.9042312, -77.0083969
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Library of Congress
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