^"910 17th Street NW - Barr Building, Application for Historic Landmark or Historic District Designation". DC Office of Planning. 17 مايو 2000. مؤرشف من الأصل في 2019-02-25. اطلع عليه بتاريخ 2019-02-25. Architect B. Stanley Simmons (1872-1931) was born in Charles County, Maryland in 1872, but came to Washington as a child where he later established his career in architecture. Simmons received his architecture degree at the University of Maryland, and later studied architecture at M.I.T.