Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
| Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building
(Federal Reserve Building) |
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 2008 |
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| place | Washington, DC |
| architect | Paul Philippe Cret |
| Architectural style | Stripped Classicism ( Neoclassicism ) |
| Construction year | 1937 |
| height | 25.91 m |
| Coordinates | 38 ° 53 '34.8 " N , 77 ° 2' 44.5" W |
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is an administrative building located on 20th Street / Constitution Avenue, Foggy Bottom , in Washington, DC
It was built in 1937 according to plans by Paul Philippe Cret and was initially called the Federal Reserve Building . In 1982 the building was given its current name (after Marriner S. Eccles ).
The four-story building has a floor area in the form of the letter H . The facade is Georgia marble, the floor and walls of the atrium are lined with travertine . The neo-classical style of the building - in the United States stripped-down or starved classicism called d. H. “Reduced classicism” - can be compared with works by Albert Speer .
The headquarters of the Federal Reserve have been located here since the beginning .
Web links
- Site plan (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2001-2049 Constitution Avenue NW
- ↑ http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/aroundtheboard/history-buildings.htm
- ^ Raphael Rosenberg: Architectures of the "Third Reich". “Völkisch” homeland ideology versus international monumentality. In Ariane Hellinger u. a .: Politics in art and art in politics. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, pp. 57–85, on p. 76.
- ^ G. Martin Moeller Jr .: AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington. 4th edition, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2006, p. 182.
- ↑ Martin Kitchen: Spear. Hitler's Architect. Yale University Press, New Haven (CT) / London 2015, p. 32.