- Originally constructed as a car barn and union station for horse-drawn trolley cable car lines, it only operated as such for less than a year before being converted to allow for electric streetcars. The Virginia streetcar lines never used the station, and the Metropolitan Railroad never used the building to the extent it originally proposed.
- The redesign to better allow electric streetcar use occured from 1910 to 1911 and required moving the front of the building closer to M Street, which required the total reconstruction/redesign of the facade and entrances. Further reconstructions to allow for more office space to replace the never used car bays took place between 1921 and 1922, and then again in 1933.
- The last streetcar to serve the building ocurred upon the closure of the Roslyn–Benning Line on April 30, 1949, though the building would be used to store streetcars for another year. In 1952, the last streetcar bays on the first floor was converted to office space.
- The building was purchased from forclosure in 1992 by the Lutheran Brotherhood, after it was lost by the D.C. Transit System, which had been housed in the building since 1952. The building was then purchased by the Douglas Development Corporation in 1997, which owns it to this day.
- The building underwent a major renovation between 2015 and 2017 to turn part of the first floor into space for Georgetown Unversity's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Georgetown University had been using part of the first floors for garage space since the 1950's.
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