Structure Type: built works - public buildings - assembly halls

Designers: Brown, Arthur, Jr., and Associates, Architect (firm); Arthur Brown Jr. (architect)

Dates: [unspecified]

14th Street and Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC 20001

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The Mellon Auditorium, named for Andrew W. Mellon, the financier and Secretary of Commerce under Republican administrations from 1921-1932, served as a linking building between the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Department of Labor (now U.S. Customs Service) Buildings. Large assemblies of state were meant to be staged in the Mellon Auditorium; its templar facade and elaborate pediment sculpture suggested the importance of its purpose. The building is a central part of the Federal Triangle Historical District in Washington, D.C.

PCAD id: 6775