The Keystone Building

The The Keystone Building is an Art-deco skyscraper designed by Robert O. Scholz, and built in 1931 in Washington DC, DC.

The Keystone Building is not the only name you might know this building by though. It is common for companies to want to attach their names to iconic buildings when they move in, or for the general public to come up with nicknames, and this one is no exception. The The Keystone Building is also known, or has been known as, H.B. Burns Memorial Building, or Medical Faculty Associates.

Its precise street address is 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington Dc, DC. You can also find it on the map here.

The The Keystone Building is a structure of significant importance both for the city of Washington DC and the United States as a nation. The building embodies the distinctive characteristic features of the time in which it was built and the Art Deco style. Because of that, the The Keystone Building was officially included in the National Register of Historic Places on June 18^th 2010.

Robert O. Scholz was the architecture firm in charge of the architectural design.

That being said, architecture is a complex discipline involving many professionals from different fields, without whom this building would have not been possible. We will surely be leaving out a lot of names here, but here is a list of the people we do know also played their part in making the The Keystone Building a reality:

• David A. Baer, and Robert O. Scholz as the Main Contractor
• Baer & Scholz as the Main Developer

The The Keystone Building can be categorized as an Art-deco building.

The The Keystone Building was completed in 1931, right when the Art Deco movement was at its peak, so it kind of went with the trend at that time.

The The Keystone Building's strucutre consists of brick load bearing walls.

From an aesthetic point of view, the facade features limestone and variegated concrete bricks in an American bond pattern. The building has a cut corner the width of a bay where the decorated metal spandrels are located under the windows. This metal decorations are also is found over the main entrance, which is covered with limestone Art Deco details and centered within the facade. The main entrance itself are double-leaf, single-light metal doors. Windows throughout the building are 1/1 metal sash with lug limestone sills. The flat roof of the building is covered with slag.

Other materials found at the The Keystone Building include, marble, found in ornamental columns, architectural cornices, and lobby decorations, and glazed tile, used in decoration details.