United States Public Health Service Building
- Architects
- United States Department of the Treasury Jules Henri de Sibour
- Year
- 1931
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
The U.S. Public Health Service Building, now known as the Federal Reserve Board East Building, was designed by Jules Henri de Sibour for the Treasury Department and completed in 1931 at 1951 Constitution Avenue NW, next to the Federal Reserve's Eccles Building. The Public Health Service occupied it starting in May 1933, moving its headquarters in from the Butler Building, and used the building through 1942 and again from 1946 to 1947.
the building
A long line of federal tenants. Between Public Health Service tenures, the building housed the wartime Combined Chiefs of Staff, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Science Foundation. From 1965 to 2018 it belonged to the Department of the Interior — known then as the Interior South Building and headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Surface Mining — before transferring to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 2018.
the style
The building was designed in the Neoclassical style by Jules Henri de Sibour for the Treasury Department, for its original tenant, the U.S. Public Health Service.
More on Neoclassicalsignificance
The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places; over nearly a century it has served as headquarters for the Public Health Service, the Combined Chiefs of Staff, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Department of the Interior, and now the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
nearby
- Eccles Building
- Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building
- Constitution Hall
- National Academy of Sciences
- Pan American Union (Organization of American States)
- Memorial Continental Hall