2000 Pennsylvania Avenue

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Building

Address: 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Square and lot, bordering streets: Square 101 (H, I, 20th, 21st Streets)

Architect: Unknown

Date of construction: 1831-96; renovation and additional construction 1980-83

Original owner: Various

Description: The Shops at 2000 Penn is a shopping center built behind the facades of thirteen historic two-three story row houses (known as Red Lion Row) along I Street between 19th and 20th Streets. The historic buildings were joined together and some of their original materials retained during the construction of the shops and the attendant eight story office building that rises from the rear. The facades display materials, forms, and details characteristic of late 19th century residential and commercial architecture. Work began on 2000 Pennsylvania on December 28, 1982, and the complex was named on October 19, 1983.

Historic designation: DC Landmark 1/24/77; National Register 8/9/77

Document Information

Images: 1
Photographic Credit: GW website
Author or Source: Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey Of Properties In Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., 1999
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: December 16, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick

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