Park Tower - View this location on map Among the city's finest pre-International style modern buildings, prominently sited opposite Meridian Hill Park; superb example of 1920s design aesthetic, exhibiting integral approach to Art Deco form and detail; reflects important changes in aesthetic philosophies, as one of first major buildings to break away from the city's predominant Beaux-Arts and Colonial Revival expression; illustrates sustained effort to develop Sixteenth Street as prestigious avenue; fashionable address for congressmen, professionals, and other notables during 1930s; 5 stories, extended irregular plan with repetitive bays, tapestry brick facades in golden buff color; ziggurat-like main facade with rooftop loggia rising above squared bays, in limestone and patterned brick with chevron, diaper, and oak leaf motifs; built 1928-29, William Harris, architect. 2440 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington , DC Historical

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