Damaged Image of Navy & Munitions Building

Damaged Image of Navy & Munitions Building

Buildings - Washington D.C.

Washington (D.C.)

Photo of two separate copies of the same photograph of the temporary Navy & Munitions Building located on the Washington D.C. Mall.

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 and in the background.

The words, "Navy & Munitions Building, Washington D.C." and "The World's Largest Office Building", are written on the lower right corner of both images.

Extensive plate damage is also visible.

Morrison Studio

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Shenandoah County Library

Undated

Identified and researched in 2025 by library staff using the words printed at the bottom of the images.

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

022135

Glass Negative