625 Indiana Ave NW - Previous Structure
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Title
625 Indiana Ave NW - Previous Structure
Creator
Historic American Buildings Survey
Subject
Organizational History
Description
Site of what would eventually be the home building of the Court.
This small pro-Civil War store building, With a frontage of 23'-4'', has a brick and cast-iron facade of attractive character, now in deteriorating condition. The first story has two intermediate cast-iron piers between corner piers of brick. These are original but the glazing is modern. Above this arc brick corner pilasters, paneled on the face, with cast-iron capitals of modified Corinthianesque character, whose acanthus leaves have an S-curved profile of pronounced curvature. On the left corner only a half pilaster remains. There are three windows at the second story, the central one round-arched. It is glazed with four-light casements and transom. The others are segmental arched, with three-light casements and transom. The openings have ornamental cast-iron hood molds and wood sills. At the third story the windows are segmental arched are provided with similar hood moulds. At the top is a bracketed cast-iron cornice. The roof is flat.
This small pro-Civil War store building, With a frontage of 23'-4'', has a brick and cast-iron facade of attractive character, now in deteriorating condition. The first story has two intermediate cast-iron piers between corner piers of brick. These are original but the glazing is modern. Above this arc brick corner pilasters, paneled on the face, with cast-iron capitals of modified Corinthianesque character, whose acanthus leaves have an S-curved profile of pronounced curvature. On the left corner only a half pilaster remains. There are three windows at the second story, the central one round-arched. It is glazed with four-light casements and transom. The others are segmental arched, with three-light casements and transom. The openings have ornamental cast-iron hood molds and wood sills. At the third story the windows are segmental arched are provided with similar hood moulds. At the top is a bracketed cast-iron cornice. The roof is flat.
Publisher
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Made available from LOC at https://www.loc.gov/item/dc0064/
Made available from LOC at https://www.loc.gov/item/dc0064/
Date
1967
Files
Collection
Citation
Historic American Buildings Survey, “625 Indiana Ave NW - Previous Structure,” CAVC Historical Society, accessed November 21, 2024, https://collection.cavchistory.org/items/show/35.