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'''Victor Justice Evans''' (1865-1931) was the founder one of the largest U.S. patent agencies of his time. Victor J. Evans & Company, Patent Attorneys, was founded in 1898. Evans built up a thriving business based in part on his willingness to offer full refunds to inventors who were unsuccessful in securing the patents they desired.<ref name="DeFerrari">{{cite news |last1=DeFerrari |first1=John |title=Victor Evans and the Victor Building downtown |url=https://ggwash.org/view/9362/victor-evans-and-the-victor-building-downtown |access-date=11 April 2024 |work=Greater Greater Washington |date=May 19, 2011 |language=en}}</ref>

By the 1920s, Evans' firm was described as the “largest patent firm in the world”, with offices in ▼

in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and San Francisco.<ref name="DeFerrari"/> ▼

In 1907, Evans bought a site at Grant Place NW (now G Place) and 9th Street in Washington, D.C., for construction of a new headquarters,<ref name="DeFerrari"/> right next to the Patent Office.<ref name="DCHS">{{cite web |title=Victor Building |url=https://historicsites.dcpreservation.org/items/show/628 |website=DC Historic Sites |access-date=11 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The Victor Building was completed in 1909 at a cost of $150,000. The six-story [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Renaissance Revival]] building is still standing,<ref name="DeFerrari"/> and has a long history as an important Washington DC office building. It was expanded twice by Evans, in 1911, and in 1925. The original building and the 1911 expansion were the work of architect [[Appleton P. Clark Jr.]] The 1925 expansion was done done by [[Waddy Butler Wood]].<ref name="DCHS"/>

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Image:The_Victor_Building_750_9th_Street_NW_Washington,_D.C._9506_3.jpg | Victor Building 750 9th Street NW Washington, 2019

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▲By the 1920s, Evans' firm was described as the “largest patent firm in the world”, with offices in

▲in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and San Francisco.<ref name="DeFerrari"/>

== Early life and career ==