Eccles Building
- Architects
- Paul Philippe Cret Samuel Yellin
- Year
- 1937
- Style
- Stripped Classicism
- City
- Washington, DC
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The Eccles Building on Constitution Avenue has housed the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors since 1937, built to consolidate a staff that had been scattered across three locations after decades of meeting inside the Treasury Building. Paul Philippe Cret designed it in the Stripped Classicism style he helped pioneer, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the building on October 20, 1937.
the building
Ironwork by Samuel Yellin. The building's ironwork was made by Samuel Yellin, set against Cret's pared-down classical design.
the style
Cret was a pioneer of Stripped Classicism, an influential stylistic development that pared classical proportion and symmetry down to flat planes and minimal ornament, a register he brought to this new central-banking headquarters.
the architect
Paul Philippe Cret designed the building, selected through an invited architectural competition after the Banking Act of 1935 centralized control of the Federal Reserve System under its Board of Governors.
significance
Originally known simply as the Federal Reserve Building, it was renamed for Marriner S. Eccles, the Fed chairman under Roosevelt, by an Act of Congress on October 15, 1982.
nearby
- United States Public Health Service Building
- National Academy of Sciences
- Harry S. Truman Federal Building
- Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building
- American Institute of Pharmacy (American Pharmacists Association)
- United States Institute of Peace Headquarters