West Heating Plant, Georgetown
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Designed in a heroic Moderne style, the former General Services Administration heating plant in Georgetown was designed by William Dewey Foster and completed in 1948. Located on a site on Rock Creek and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal with spectacular views, the property was sold to a developer in 2013; current plans propose to demolish most of the building, replacing the volume with a new structure to accommodate luxury condominiums. The Commission last reviewed this project in May 2017.
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West Heating Plant
The West Heating Plant, originally known as the West Central Heating Plant, was designed by consulting architect William Dewey Foster (1890-1958), working under successive Supervising Architects of the Public Buildings Administration, Louis A. Simon…