The Sun Building is an historic building, located at 1317 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the in Downtown Washington, D.C.

Downtown Washington, D.C.

Downtown is a neighborhood of Washington, D.C., as well as a colloquial name for the central business district in the northwest quadrant of the city. Geographically, the area extends roughly five to six blocks west, northwest, north, northeast, and east of the White House...

 neighborhood.

History

It was designed by Alfred B. Mullett

Alfred B. Mullett

Alfred Bult Mullett was an American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect, head of the agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings...

 and constructed from 1885 to 1887, by John H. Howlett.
It was built for the Washington Bureau of the Baltimore Sun.

The nine story building was served by steam elevators, which were replaced by hydraulics in 1909, and electric elevators in 1922. It was altered, in 1904 by B. Stanley Simmons

B. Stanley Simmons

-Life:He was born in Charles County, Maryland in 1872, but came to Washington, DC as a child where he later established his career in architecture. Simmons received his architecture degree at the University of Maryland, and later studied architecture at MIT. Over the course of his long career,...

 for the American Bank.
In 1907, the ninth story was added as the Interstate Commerce Commission Hearing Room.

Tenants included the Interstate Commerce Commission

Interstate Commerce Commission

The Interstate Commerce Commission was a regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The agency's original purpose was to regulate railroads to ensure fair rates, to eliminate rate discrimination, and to regulate other aspects of common carriers, including...

, Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

's law firm, Daniel C. Roper, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

.

The Sun Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 27, 1985. Its 2009 property value is $13,931,970.

External links

• http://www.emporis.com/building/sunbuilding-washington-dc-usa
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/5153434850/