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The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Building is a historic structure located in
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It was listed on the
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in 1988.


History

This was the third building
C&P Telephone The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, usually known as C&P Telephone, is a former d/b/a name for four Bell Operating Companies providing service to Washington, D.C., Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. Today, three of the companies ar ...
built in downtown Washington and the second in a two-year period of time. This seven-story structure housed the company's new dial switching equipment that could not be accommodated in its existing facilities. It was designed with
Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
detailing and ornamentation by the New York architectural firm of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker. The company began its first conversion to dial telephone service on May 3, 1930, when 60,000 telephones in downtown Washington were switched over from the old manual system.


See also

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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Old Main Building The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Old Main Building is a historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. History As the number of businesses in Washington inc ...
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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse and Repair Facility The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse and Repair Facility is an Art Deco industrial building, located at 1111 North Capitol Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the NoMa neighborhood which houses the headquarters of National P ...


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* {{National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings completed in 1928 Art Deco architecture in Washington, D.C. Telecommunications buildings on the National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C. 1928 establishments in Washington, D.C.