Eccles Building - Wikipedia The Marriner S Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building houses the main offices of the Board of Governors of the United States' Federal Reserve System It is located at the intersection of 20th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington, D C The building, designed in the Stripped Classicism style, was designed by Paul Philippe Cret and
Federal Reserve Board Building - This structure set the tone . . . In 1935, the Federal Reserve Board held a national competition to select an architect who would design their new Washington, DC headquarters The ultimate winner was the prominent Paul Philippe Cret, who was known for his design of the Pan American Union Headquarters building (1908) and the Folger Shakespeare Library (1929), amongst many other buildings Construction on the building began in
The Fed - History of the Marriner S. Eccles Building and . . . The Federal Reserve Board approved Cret's architectural and landscaping plans for the building on January 8, 1936, and awarded the construction contract to George A Fuller Company Construction began in February 1936 and was completed in August 1937
The Disappointing Federal Reserve Building Facing the National Mall the Federal Reserve System’s building presents a style acceptable to both Modernist and traditional architects Its architect Paul Cret had studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris and had been recruited in 1903 to establish the architecture program at the University of Pennsylvania
Federal Reserve Board Building, Washington D. C. - GPSmyCity The stately edifice on the corner of 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington D C has been the home of the Federal Reserve Board since October 20, 1937 Dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it stands to this day as an important contribution to American architectural history and design theory
Federal Reserve Board Building | SAH ARCHIPEDIA The form of the Federal Reserve Board Building was dictated in part by the building's supervisors A Reserve Board representative, Adolph C Miller, and Fine Arts Commission Chairman Charles Moore agreed that the building should rely on “conception, proportion, scale and purity of line” rather than “purely decorative or monumental