McLachlen Building: The McLachlen Building is a Beaux-Arts Classical Revival style building, influenced by Chicago commercial precedents.
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The McLachlen Building is a significant work of noted and socially prominent Washington architect Jules Henri de Sibour, illustrating the influence of the McMillan Commission Plan on the business district. The building was built between 1910 and 1911, and then was altered and renovated between 1988 and 1989. Since then, it has been part of Washington Center.
It served as the home of a family-run bank founded in 1887 as a real estate investment partnership that was associated with local community development.
Nine-stories high, the McLachlen Building has richly ornamented facades of marble and glazed terra cotta, with textured spandrels, a Greek Doric entrance, and an exuberant cornice.
DC Inventory: September 11, 1985
National Register: November 6, 1986
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McLachlen Building from SE corner of 10th and G streets NW.
Source: Zachary Burt. | Date: October 2023.
McLachlen Building, view from SE, August 1986
Credit: Quadrangle Development Corp.
McLachlen Building, rectified photograph of G Street facade; view from the South, March 1985
Credit: Harlan Hambright
McLachlen Building, rectified photograph of 10th Street facade, view from East, March 1985
Credit: Harlan Hambright![[View of 10th Street, N.W., looking North from G Street showing McLachlen Real Estate and Loan Co., bank offices on the corner], [1910]](https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/files/fullsize/bad1c50b2aa4e3d5a7c915c665ca7d0e.jpg)
[View of 10th Street, N.W., looking North from G Street showing McLachlen Real Estate and Loan Co., bank offices on the corner], [1910]
[View of 10th Street, N.W., looking North from G Street showing McLachlen Real Estate and Loan Co., bank offices on the corner]. [1901] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016646897/. (Accessed October 04, 2016.)![[View of G Street, N.W., North side, looking West from 10th Street showing passersby in front of McLachlen Real Estate and Loan Co., bank offices, and other shops], [1910]](https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/files/fullsize/19aaad5042c9ad292819fd70b4fe6aa5.jpg)
[View of G Street, N.W., North side, looking West from 10th Street showing passersby in front of McLachlen Real Estate and Loan Co., bank offices, and other shops], [1910]
[View of G Street, N.W., North side, looking West from 10th Street showing passersby in front of McLachlen Real Estate and Loan Co., bank offices, and other shops]. [1901] Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016646889/. (Accessed October 04, 2016.)
The 10th Street entrance of the McLachlen Building. The building has been part of Washington Center since the late-1980s.
Source: Zachary Burt. | Date: October 2023.