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The Frances Perkins Building is the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the United States Department of Labor. It is located at 200 Constitution Avenue NW and sits above Interstate 395. The structure is named after Frances Perkins, the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933–1945 and the first female cabinet secretary in U.S. history. [1]
The Herbert C. Hoover Building is the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the United States Department of Commerce.. The building is located at 1401 Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., on the block bounded by Constitution Avenue NW to the south, Pennsylvania Avenue NW to the north, 15th Street NW to the west, and 14th Street NW to the east.
When the OAS (Organization of American States) Building located at Seventeenth Street and Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington D.C., was completed in 1910, it was considered the architectural wonder of its time.
It is located at 1951 Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., adjacent to the Eccles Building. It was the headquarters of the U.S. Public Health Service during 1933–1942 and 1946–1947; at other times it was the headquarters of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Atomic Energy Commission, and National Science Foundation.
The Constitution Center, [1] formerly known as the David Nassif Building, is an office building located at 400 7th Street SW in Washington, D.C. [2] It is 140 feet (43 m) high and has 10 floors. [3] Covering an entire city block, it is the largest privately owned office building in Washington, D.C. [ 3 ] Current tenants include the Federal ...
The Department of Labor Building, also known as the William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building, is a historic office building, located at 14th Street, and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Federal Triangle. It was the headquarters building for the United States Department of Labor from its opening until the 1970s.
The building was designed by architects and engineers in the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon, and built from 1928 to 1936. [2] The cornerstone was laid in 1929 by Treasury Secretary Andrew W. Mellon. [3]
In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating the Department of Justice. [3] Still, there was not yet a permanent home for either the Attorney General or the Justice Department, and each had occupied a succession of temporary spaces in federal government buildings and privately owned office buildings. [3]