Federal Reserve Board of Governors Building - Washington, D.C.
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BruceS
N 38° 53.547 W 077° 02.749
18S E 322573 N 4306831
Headquarters for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors along the Mall in Washington, D.C.
Waymark Code: WMJJ86
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 11/23/2013
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A four-story building for the Board is under construction on Constitution Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets NW., and will be ready for occupancy sometime in 1937. The building, designed by Paul Cret, architect of the Folger Library and the Pan American Union, is the fifth important structure to be placed west of Seventeenth Street on Constitution Avenue. It is a part of an architectural scheme for a harmonious group of public and semipublic buildings in proximity to the Lincoln Memorial.
The building, simple in mass and detail, is of white Georgia marble, and conforms with the classic style of architecture prevailing in the Federal City. The only monumental feature of the exterior is the main portico on the Constitution Avenue facade.
- Washington, City and Capital, 1937, pg. 1002.
The above quotation was taken from the end of a four page discussion of the Federal Reserve and was written during the construction of this building. The building was renamed the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building or the Eccles Building for short in 1982 in memory of Marriner S. Eccles a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve. The building continues to house the main offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. A fifth story was added to the center section of the building in the 1970s.