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Eight Hundred Block of F St. NW

collection of five historic commercial buildings in Washington, D.C., US

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ16834766 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Eight Hundred Block of F Street NW refers to a collection of five commercial buildings in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC. It formerly housed the International Spy Museum and is across the street from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It currently houses a branch of the Shake Shack.

Buildings

1892, Warder Building, S.E. corner of 9th and F Sts, designed by Washington architect Nicholas T. Haller, Richardsonian Romanesque style, this was a large elevator building intended for use as offices, apartments and stores.

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“Eight Hundred Block of F St. NW” enters the record as collection of five historic commercial buildings in Washington, D.C., US. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eight, Hundred and Block can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16834766. Authority coordinates are 38.897, -77.024. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1892.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eight Hundred Block of F St. NW” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.