Ambulatory Care Center

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Building

Address: 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Square and lot, bordering streets: Square 75 (Eye, Pennsylvania Avenue, 21st, 22nd Streets)

Architect: Unknown

Date of construction: 1920’s-1930s

Original owner: Unknown

Description: This building is similar in massing to Onassis and Munson Halls. It is a twelve-story building, a former apartment house. It is faced with brick and cast stone and has Deco-inspired detailing. Metal panels with pressed scrollwork decorate the areas below the windows. A similar motif surrounds the door. The building was dedicated February 15, 1971. Its original name was the University Clinic, or Burns Clinic.

Historic designation: None

Document Information

Images: 0
Photographic Credit: n/a
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 21, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist; G. David Anderson, University Archivist

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