William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building
- Architects
- Chester Holmes Aldrich William Adams Delano
- Year
- 1934
- Style
- Neoclassical
- City
- Washington, DC
- Collection
- the city beautiful
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The William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building is a complex of historic Federal Triangle structures designed by Chester Holmes Aldrich and William Adams Delano and completed in 1934, standing across 12th Street NW from the Old Post Office. Its original component, the New Post Office, served as headquarters for the Post Office Department until that agency was replaced by the U.S. Postal Service in 1971.
the building
A building with three names. Renamed the Ariel Rios Federal Building in 1985 after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved in, the complex was renamed again in 2013 to honor President Bill Clinton, with the General Services Administration extending that name to the former Interstate Commerce Commission and Department of Labor buildings the EPA had also absorbed.
the style
Built in the Neoclassical architecture prescribed for the Federal Triangle development, the complex presents a formal, symmetrical government facade across from the Old Post Office.
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A National Register of Historic Places contributing property, the complex has passed from the Post Office Department to the ATF to the Environmental Protection Agency, which consolidated its headquarters here by also occupying the adjoining former Interstate Commerce Commission and Department of Labor buildings.
nearby
- Old Post Office
- Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
- Internal Revenue Service Building
- District Building (John A. Wilson Bldg.)
- Department of Labor Building
- Warner Theatre Building (and Interior)