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True Reformer Building
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| Location: | 1200 U Street, NW, Washington, District of Columbia |
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| Area: | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built: | 1903 |
| Architect: | John Anderson Lankford |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 88003063[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | January 9, 1989 |
The True Reformer Building is an historic building, located at 1200 U Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Shaw neighborhood.
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It was designed by John Anderson Lankford, commissioned by Grand United Order of True Reformers, and dedicated on July 15, 1903.[2] The Knights of Pythias bought the building in 1917.[3]
From 1937 to 1959, the Boys Club of the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia, leased the building; Eleanor Roosevelt rededicated the building.[4]
Other tenants have included: Washington Conservancy, the DC Chapter of the National Negro Business League, the First Separate Battalion. Duke Ellington gave performances here.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Public Welfare Foundation bought it in 1999. It was renovated from the winter of 2000, until February 2001, designed by Sorg & Associates.[5]
G. Byron Peck's mural to Duke Ellington on the side of the building, overlooks the U Street Metro station.[6] It was completed in 1997, and located on the sidewall of Mood Indigo.[7] It was relocated to the True Reformer Building.[8]
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