Eisenhower Executive Office Building
The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (abbreviation: EEOB ; formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building , abbreviation OEOB ) is an office building in Washington, DC It is located next to the White House and is part of the White House Complex .
The building is owned by the General Services Administration , the White House Administration and the President's Executive Office . It is located on 17th Street NW, between Pennsylvania Avenue and New York Avenue, West Executive Drive. The building is a National Historic Landmark .
According to the National Register of Historic Places , the building - originally the State, War, and Navy Building because it housed the Foreign , War, and Navy departments - was built in the French Second Empire style between 1871 and 1888 . It was designed by Alfred B. Mullet.
Much of the interior was furnished with structural and decorative elements made of refractory cast iron by Richard von Ezdorf, including the massive skylights above each of the grand staircases and the doorknobs with cast emblems that marked the areas of the three departments (state, navy, war). The building's original tenants quickly moved out of the building and eventually the building stood empty in the late 1930s. The building was almost demolished in 1957. In 1981 there were plans to restore the ministerial areas. The Headquarters of the Secretary of the Navy was restored in 1987 and is now the official residence of the Vice President of the United States . Several studies to modernize the building were carried out but not implemented. Shortly after September 11, 2001 , the building on 17th Street was empty and plans to modernize this area of the building were implemented. The building also houses various agencies that report to the Executive Office of the American President, such as the Vice President's Office , the Office of Management and Budget , and the National Security Council. Primarily the building is used by the Vice President's office, who use the building for special events and press conferences.
Many United States celebrities have attended historical events within the granite walls of the Old Executive Office Building. Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin D. Roosevelt , William Howard Taft , Dwight D. Eisenhower , Lyndon B. Johnson , Gerald Ford, and George HW Bush all had offices in this building before they became President. It housed 16 naval ministers, 21 war ministers and 24 foreign ministers. Winston Churchill once walked the hallways and Japanese emissaries met here with Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the attack on Pearl Harbor . President Herbert Hoover used the Navy Department for a few months after a fire in the Oval Office on Christmas Eve 1929. Dwight D. Eisenhower gave the first television press conference in the Indian Treaty Room in January 1955. Richard Nixon had a private office here during his presidency. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was the first in a series of Vice Presidents who have offices in the building to this day.
On December 19, 2007, a fire damaged an office of the Vice President's staff and his official residence. According to a media report, the office of Vice President's Political Director Amy Whitelaw was badly damaged by the fire.
For Mark Twain , the building was "the ugliest [...] in America". Harry Truman called it "the greatest monstrosity in America".
Web links
- Old Executive Office Building, on the National Park Service website
- Virtual tour on the White House website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vice President's Ceremonial Office . The White House. Retrieved December 19, 2007.
- ^ Indian Treaty Room . The White House. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 1, 2008.
- ↑ DailyKos Diary ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed December 19, 2007.
- ↑ Fire on White House grounds under control: Hundreds evacuated after blaze breaks out close to VP's ceremonial office . In: MSNBC . Retrieved January 4, 2009.
- ↑ FoxNews Clip (Redlasso) ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed December 19, 2007.
- ↑ Cheney's Office Damaged in Fire . In: WTOPNews . Retrieved March 1, 2008.
- ^ The White House Area . Archived from the original on October 5, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ↑ Call it ugly or a monstrosity; call it Eisenhower Building . In: The Morning Sun . Archived from the original on May 14, 2001 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved April 13, 2008.
Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '51.2 " N , 77 ° 2' 20.9" W.