Americans for the Arts

 office building, art museum / art gallery

187-foot, 16-story office building completed in 1926. Designed by Walter M. Mason, it is clad in limestone, painted at the lower 7 floors. On the narrow south facade, the double-height ground floor has glass doors next to a plate-glass window, both set below a broad, segmental-arch of glass. The 2nd floor has a double-window in the middle with a single-window at both ends. The 3rd-7th floors have four bays of single-windows.

Above a decorative band course with swags, the upper floors begin a series of setbacks. The middle part of the facade (now with double-windows) projects forward from the farther-set-back ends at the 9th & 11th floors. The building culminates in a small 3-story crown.

The east elevation is painted limestone up to the 7th floor, where is transitions to buff-colored brick. There is one bay of single-windows just south of the center, extending up to the final setback above the 13th floor. To the front are three more bays of single-windows, two of them beginning at the 7th floor, and the southernmost beginning at the 8th, and then dropping off at the setbacks of the upper floors. Just north of the center is a bay of smaller windows beginning at the 7th floor and extending up to the 15th. At the north end is a bay of double-windows and an end bay of single-windows.

Founded in 1960, Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education. From offices in Washington, DC and New York City, we provide a rich array of programs that meet the needs of over 150,000 members and stakeholders. We are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and to creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.

www.artsusa.org/about_us/