The Barr Building is an historic structure located in the
Golden Triangle section of
Downtown
''Downtown'' is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a city's sometimes commercial, cultural and often the historical, political and geographic heart. It is often synonymous with its central business distric ...
Washington, D.C. It was listed on the
District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites
The District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites is a register of historic places in Washington, D.C. that are designated by the District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB), a component of the District of Columbia Gover ...
in 2012 and on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2013. The building was designed by Washington architect
B. Stanley Simmons in the
Gothic Revival style and named for its developer, John L. Barr. When completed in 1927, the building was noted for having the fastest elevators in the city.
The eleven-story structure rises to a height of .
References
Office buildings completed in 1927
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
Office buildings in Washington, D.C.
Gothic Revival architecture in Washington, D.C.
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