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Here lies one of DC's quietest temples, a Roman Revival structure where a architect's reverence for classical antiquity took root in American soil. Anyone drawn to the architecture beneath the surface—the kind that whispers rather than shouts—will find themselves standing inside something genuinely rare.
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