Sidney R. Yates Federal Building
- Architect
- James G. Hill
- Style
- Romanesque Revival
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- romanesque revival
The Sidney R. Yates Federal Building on the National Mall was built between 1878 and 1880 as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Treasury Department office founded in 1862 to bring the printing of official government documents in-house. The Treasury purchased the site from philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran and had its own Supervising Architect, James G. Hill, design an L-shaped Romanesque building of red and black brick.
the building
Materials and builders. The brick came from the Peerless Brick Company of Philadelphia, laid by bricklayers Bitting & Davidson under builder John Fraser, the Treasury's Superintendent of Construction.
the style
Hill, as Supervising Architect of the Treasury, designed the building in the Romanesque style, giving a federal printing works the same masonry solidity as the era's banks and courthouses.
More on Romanesque Revivalthe architect
James G. Hill designed the building through his office while serving as Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, the post responsible for the government's federal building projects.
significance
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has since housed multiple federal offices under its later names, the Auditor's Building Complex and the Sidney R. Yates Federal Building.
nearby
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Department of Agriculture South Building
- Jamie L. Whitten Building
- Washington Monument
- U.S. Government Central Heating Plant
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Cotton Annex