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		B3 INDEX
		Lansburgh's
		National Archives Building
		7th & Pennsylvania

	CENTER MARKET

Photo: Washingtoniana Division, D.C. Public Library

Center Market, located on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue where the National Archives now stands, was one of Washington's most popular markets. Its disappearance in 1931 was a blow to downtown Washington's life as a "walking city." The Center Market buildings, erected in 1871, were designed by German-American architect Adolf Cluss.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 Cluss Biography
Adolf Cluss (1825-1905), born in Heilbronn, Germany, the son and grandson of architects, had a remarkably successful career in Washington, DC. He came to the United States in the wake of the unsuccessful 1848 revolution and was a follower of Karl Marx, whose works he sometimes translated for the New York Tribune (the newspaper for which Carl Schurz, another "forty-eighter," served as a Washington reporter).

Cluss's buildings dot Washington still today and his prominence in the German-speaking as well as the greater Washington communities is unquestioned.