Gewirz Hillel Center

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Building

Title: Gewirz Hillel Center

Address: 2300 H Street, N.W.

Square and lot, bordering streets: Square 42 (G, H, 23rd, 24th Streets)

Architect: Lelia Imas and Juan Gruner

Date of construction: 1986

Original owner: The George Washington University

Description: The three-story plus basement Postmodern Gewirz Hillel Center is faced with red brick and detailed with concrete elements, such as fenestration framing. The corner on the building, facing H and 23rd Streets, is glass. A small semicircular window and brick arch decorate the second story window on the east façade. On June 10, 1986, The B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the University held as groundbreaking ceremony for the Gewirz Center.

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; University Archives collections; Hillel website [1]
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: December 21, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist

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