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[Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.) Basement floor. Plan] / George N. Ray, Architect. – Vintage Wall Art

[Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.) Basement floor. Plan] / George N. Ray, Architect., and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.) Basement floor. Plan] / George N. Ray, Architect., and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic drawing captures [Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.) Basement floor. Plan] / George N. Ray, Architect. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Two office buildings for B.F. Saul (15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.) Basement floor. Plan] / George N. Ray, Architect.

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Few drawings show the working guts of a building as plainly as this basement plan, which lays out the lower level of two office buildings that developer B.F. Saul planned for 15th Street Northwest in Washington. The sheet is a blueprint with graphite notes, signed by architect George N. Ray of the Washington firm Waggaman & Ray, and it is marked as drawing number one in commission 250, with the lots identified by square and lot number. The handwritten note "Keep this set" hints at how such sets were filed and kept as the lasting record of construction. Drawings from the 1920s like this one document a period when Washington's downtown office stock was expanding quickly.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
GenreCommission no. 250, drawing no. 1. Buildings located on lots 69 and part of 10, square 218. Inscription: Basement floor plan." Annotation: "Keep this set." Signed by architect. Waggaman & Ray Archive."
Notes1 architectural drawing on paper : blueprint and graphite.
SubjectsOffice buildings--Washington (D.C.)--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,269 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180301

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