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Corcoran Office Building
Corcoran Office Building

Corcoran Office Building, entrance (modified by Cluss)
Corcoran Office Building, entrance (modified by Cluss)


Corcoran Office Building, Addition (11)

East side of 15th Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and F Street, NW
Constructed in 1885, demolished in 1917

The New York architects Renwick and Sands designed the Corcoran building in 1875. In 1885, banker William W. Corcoran hired Cluss and Schulze to design a "columnade" for the 15th Street entrance and to reconstruct the stairway.

Cluss and Schulze maintained their office in this building in the 1880s. Many of Washington's artists rented studio space and taught painting and drawing classes in the building. William W. Corcoran founded the first art museum in Washington.

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