The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D.C. , is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District's tallest residential building. The 164-feet-tall brick building was designed by architect Thomas Franklin Schneider and completed in 1894 as the city's first "residential skyscraper". Today, the Cairo is a condominium building, home to renters and owners. The Egyptian theme of the building is stamped across its Moorish and Romanesque Revival features.

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  • The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D.C. , is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District's tallest residential building. The 164-feet-tall brick building was designed by architect Thomas Franklin Schneider and completed in 1894 as the city's first "residential skyscraper". Today, the Cairo is a condominium building, home to renters and owners. The Egyptian theme of the building is stamped across its Moorish and Romanesque Revival features. Gargoyles perch high above the front entrance; some are winged griffins staring down from cornices, and others are more lighthearted. Along the first floor are elephant heads, which look left and right from the stone window sills of the front windows and interlock trunks at the corners of the entrance arch. On the fourth floor are both dragon and dwarf crosses. The stone facade is carved with an inlaid design that hints at more exotic Middle Eastern origins. The opposing design elements produce a harmony described as follows in the AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, D.C. : "for all its quirks, the awkward tower reigns as one of Washington's guilty pleasures."
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  • The Cairo apartment building, located at 1615 Q Street NW in Washington, D.C. , is a landmark in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and the District's tallest residential building. The 164-feet-tall brick building was designed by architect Thomas Franklin Schneider and completed in 1894 as the city's first "residential skyscraper". Today, the Cairo is a condominium building, home to renters and owners. The Egyptian theme of the building is stamped across its Moorish and Romanesque Revival features.
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