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The Jefferson- Washington, DC
Designed by French architect Jules Henri de Sibour, The Jefferson debuted in 1923 as a luxury apartment building. It was later used during World War II as temporary housing for defense workers, before converting to a hotel in 1955.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library- Washington, DC
The MLK Jr. Memorial Library has always been about great architecture. Designed in 1969 by the modernist marvel Mies van der Rohe, the new library replaced the lovely but antiquated 1901 Beaux Arts Carnegie Library in downtown Washington, D.C.
