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Sun Building

building, Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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design by Mullett

In Alfred B. Mullett
His nine-story Sun Building (1885–86) in Washington, D.C., can be regarded as one of the first skyscrapers because of its slim, elongated vertical form.
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