loading…loading…loading…landmark and historical building · 811 Vermont Ave NW
A 1940 Art Deco monument to Depression-era ambition, this building quietly powered America's industrial mobilization during World War II from behind its Vermont Avenue facade. Government workers and history buffs pass by daily without realizing they're walking past a building that helped reshape the nation.
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