Towering Over the City

What Do You Think You're Looking At? #87

This is a neat building in Washington, D.C.:

It’s known as the Apex Building, but it turns out not only is that nickname much newer than the building itself, but there was once a different nearby building first known as the Apex Building!

Its history involves banks, liquor stores, and Sears, and the building dates to 1864. Its iconic towers were a later a…