901 New York Avenue

901 New York Avenue NW
East side of 901 New York Avenue NW
General information
Type	Office
Location	Washington, D.C., United States
Coordinates	38°54′08″N 77°01′31″W / 38.902172°N 77.02535°W / 38.902172; -77.02535
Completed	2005
Management	Boston Properties
Height
Roof	140 feet (43 m)[1]
Technical details
Floor count	11
Floor area	540,000 square feet (50,000 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Davis Carter Scott, Ltd.
Developer	Boston Properties

901 New York Avenue NW is a mid-rise Postmodern high-rise located in Downtown Washington, D.C., in the United States. The structure was developed by Boston Properties to help revitalize the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood, and was completed in 2005. It is located on a roughly triangular parcel bounded by New York Avenue NW, K Street NW, and 10th Street NW. It is north of the CityCenterDC mixed-use residential, office, and retail project.

The triangular area was originally home to Victorian housing, but in 1977, the city used eminent domain to purchase the area southwest of Mount Vernon Square itself, and over the next few years, the homes and businesses on these blocks were razed. In the 1980s, Golub Realty and Willco Construction purchased the site and proposed an 11-floor office block. They sold it to Peterson Co., who sold it to Monument Realty in May 1999. Monument Realty had envisaged building either an office and retail complex or a 1,000-room hotel. They finally sold it to Boston Properties for $43.2 million in October 2000. Boston Properties closed the parking lot on the site in late August 2002 and began building construction the following month.

The architectural height of the building is 140 feet (43 m), although the height of the main roof is 130.86 feet (39.89 m) and the height of the top floor is 118.36 feet (36.08 m). It has 11 stories and a four-story underground parking garage. Reports of the building's interior space vary widely, with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m²) the most recently reported by the mainstream media. The facade is of polished granite and precast concrete in two colors. An atrium three stories in height with 36-foot (11 m) long arched steel trusses forms the lobby. Two tiny parks exist on the triangular parcel of land owned by the National Park Service. Acadiana, a 185-seat upscale restaurant on the ground floor that served Louisiana-and Cajun-style seafood, was cited by Esquire magazine as one of the best new restaurants in the entire United States in 2006. The restaurant closed in December 2018, and as of January 2019, no replacement tenants have been announced.^[2] Miami-based Yardbird Southern Table & Bar has taken Acadiana's former space in April 2021.^[3]