Navy & Munitions Building, D.C.

Navy & Munitions Building, D.C.

Buildings - Washington D.C.

Washington (D.C.)

One of the temporary Navy & Munitions buildings photographed from an elevated position across the street. Automobiles from the 1920's are visible parked along the bottom.

This is one of several buildings erected in 1918 along Constitution Avenue (then C Street) to accommodate office space needed at the time.

To make the buildings more resistant to fire, the buildings were constructed using concrete. With solid construction, the temporary buildings remained used long after the end of World War I.

The buildings were demolished in 1970 and the land was reclaimed and turned into Constitution Gardens, with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial built near the former Munitions Building site in the early 1980s.

In this image, the Lincoln Memorial is visible behind the building.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Undated

Identified in 2025 by library staff after research on-line.

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Same building appears in Morrison Studio Collection numbers 022133, 022134, and 022135.

022134

Glass Negative