United States Government, Department of State Building, Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC (1941)

AKA: United States Government, Harry S. Truman Department of State Building, Washington, DC

Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings

Designers: Underwood, Gilbert Stanley, Architect (firm); United States Government, Department of the Treasury, Office of the Supervising Architect, Simon, Louis A. (firm); Louis Adolphe Simon (architect); Gilbert Stanley Underwood (architect)

Dates: constructed 1941

total floor area: 1,400,000 sq. ft.

click to open gallery Exterior view of the US State Department Building, Washington, DC, 2008; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Paco8191
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2201 C Street NW
Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC 20037
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Building History

Louis A. Simon (1867-1958), the Supervising Architect of the US Treasury from 1933 until 1939, has been given credit for the design of the US Department of State Building, along with two other architects, Gilbert Stanley Underwood (1890-1961) andWilliam Dewey Foster (1890-1958).

PCAD id: 7299

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