Hecht Company Warehouse

Former central warehouse pike Company, 2012

The Hecht Company Warehouse in Washington, D.C. in the Ivy City neighborhood, a building in the style of the Streamline Moderne is from the year 1937. was designed by Gilbert V. Steel from Washington engineering firm Abbott and Merkt, New York Avenue. It served as a central warehouse for the commercial enterprise pike. In 1948, was an enlargement of the building.

In the building facade glass blocks were used on a larger scale. Also, a star-shaped, zwölfspitzige dome on the corner Okie and Fenwick Street is made of glass blocks that are lit at night. At the level of the fifth floor of the lettering "The Pike Co " with black bricks is incorporated into the glass brick facade.

At the opening of the building included an auto repair shop and air conditioning for the basement and the first two floors. In addition, a separate siding with three platforms was available.

In 1992 the building was renovated using appropriate materials.

The recording as a monument to the national Register of Historic Places was made on 25 May 1994 under the reference 94,000,446th

After the camp was closed in 2006, the building stood empty. Currently it is planned to rebuild it while preserving its external form to a complex with office space and retail.