Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., Inc.

Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., Inc.
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Old Masonic Temple in 2020
38°53′51.2″N 77°1′27.1″W / 38.897556°N 77.024194°W / 38.897556; -77.024194
Area	0.2 acres (0.081 ha)
Architect	Adolf Cluss, Kammerheuber
Architectural style	French Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	74002164[1]
Added to NRHP	May 8, 1974

Julius Lansburgh Furniture Co., Inc., also known as the Old Masonic Temple, is an historic building at 901 F Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Penn Quarter neighborhood.

History

The French Renaissance Revival building was designed by Adolf Cluss, and Joseph Wildrich von Kammerhueber in 1867. Construction began in June 1867; the cornerstone was laid in May 1868, by President Andrew Johnson; it was dedicated on March 20, 1870. The building cost $100,000, but a mansard roof fifth floor, was not completed because of lack of funds. There is a full basement. First-floor stores were leased, and a grand ballroom on the second-floor was rented out.^[2]

Julius Lansburgh purchased the Old Masonic Temple in 1921. The building was painted white in 1922,^[3] and operated as a furniture store. After Lansburgh's closed in 1970, it was listed as an historic building in 1974. In December 1979, the District of Columbia refused to issue a demolition permit in accordance with its historic preservation law.^[4] The building was renovated in 2000, at a cost of $33 million.^[5] It serves as the headquarters of the Gallup Organization.

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