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Equitable Life Insurance Company (Fannie Mae Headquarters): This building represents the growth in life insurance following World War II.
The Equitable Life Insurance Company was founded in Washington in 1885. Following World War II, the industry entered an age of major expansion and significant profit as it invested life insurance…
Editors Building: Established in 1923, the Kiplinger publishing company has enjoyed more than eight decades of journalistic success.
The Editors Building is a ten-story office building constructed in downtown DC between 1949 and 1950 to house the offices of the family-owned and operated Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., the…
Western Union Telegraph Company (Washington Radio Terminal): This seventy-three-foot-tall octagonal transmission tower was built from 1945 to 1947 near the city’s highest point of elevation.
The Western Union Telegraph Company Tenley Radio Terminal is a landmark in engineering history. Built between 1945 and 1947, it served as a transmission and receiving station in an experimental radio…