Cairo Apartment Building - Washington, D.C.

ID: 2515 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Creator: The Cairo located at 1615 Q Street, N.W., in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. ~ Date: August 2008

This file appears in: The Cairo Apartment Building: Despite its high-society ties, the Cairo’s most important—and controversial—legacy in DC is its height.

This file appears in: The Cairo Apartment Building: Despite its high-society ties, the Cairo’s most important—and controversial—legacy in DC is its height.

The Cairo Apartment Building: Despite its high-society ties, the Cairo’s most important—and controversial—legacy in DC is its height.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Thomas Franklin Schneider returned from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition with plenty of inspiration. The towering, state-of-the-art commercial structures Schneider had seen in Chicago were unlike…