The Cairo Apartment Building, Exterior Facing Northeast

ID: 57 ~ Source: National Register Nomination Form ~ Creator: EHT Traceries Inc. ~ Date: April 1989

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.

Photograph: street view of the Cairo's exterior. The building towers over those surrounding it.

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…