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


History

As the number of businesses in Washington increasingly relied on telephone service,
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company 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 ...
built this building as its new main exchange. Designed by architect Leon Eidlitz, it was the first of a complex of buildings the company would construct at this site. The building houses what was considered to be the largest telephone switchboard at the time. It began operations in September 1904 and served 6,000 at the beginning. The new system eliminated the multiple rings on party lines and the need for an operator to interrupt the line to determine whether a subscriber had completed a call or wanted to receive calls.


See also

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Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Building The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Building is a historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. History This was the third building C&P Telephone built in down ...
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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 Nationa ...


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* {{National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings completed in 1904 Telecommunications buildings on the National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.