National Metropolitan Bank Building, looking northeast, March 1978
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Credit: Anne H. Helwig, NCPC
This file appears in: National Metropolitan Bank: This Beaux-Arts bank building was designed by B. Stanley Simmons, a prolific DC architect.
National Metropolitan Bank: This Beaux-Arts bank building was designed by B. Stanley Simmons, a prolific DC architect.
The distinctive Beaux-Arts facade of the National Metropolitan Bank building forms a strong architectural unit with the adjacent Riggs (Albee) Building. Its design echoes that of many of the other…