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E. The Eisenhower
Executive Office Building (EEOB) commands a unique position in both
our national history and architectural heritage. Designed by
Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Alfred B. Mullett, it was
built from 1871 to 1888 to house the growing staffs of the State,
War, and Navy Departments, and is considered one of the be
st examples of French Second Empire architecture in the
country.
C. The State, War, and Navy Building, as it
was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments
most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the
nation’s foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth
century and the first quarter of the twentieth century — the period
when the United States emerged as an international power. The
building has housed some of the nation’s most significant diplomats
and politicians and has been the scene of many historic
events.
G. The history of the EEOB began long before
its foundations were laid. The first executive offices were
constructed on sites flanking the White House between 1799 and
1820. A series of fires (including those set by the British in
1814) and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the
existing Treasury Building. In 1866, the construction of the North
Wing of the Treasury Building necessitated the demolition of the
State Department building.
A. In December of 1869, Congress appointed a
commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates
for a new State Department Building. The commission was also to
consider possible arrangements for the War and Navy Departments. To
the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the
Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White
House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred
Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house all
three departments began in June of 1871.
F. Construction took 17 years as the building slowly
rose wing by wing. When the EEOB was finished in 1888, it was the
largest office building in Washington, with nearly 2 miles of black
and white tiled corridors. Almost all of the interior detail is of
cast iron or plaster; the use of wood was minimized to insure fire
safety. Eight monumental curving staircases of granite with over
4,000 individually cast bronze balusters are capped by four
skylight domes and two stained glass rotundas.
B. Completed in 1875, the State Department’s
south wing was the first to be occupied, with its elegant
four-story library (completed in 1876), Diplomatic Reception Room,
and Secretary’s office decorated with carved wood, Oriental rugs,
and stenciled wall patterns. The Navy Department moved into the
east wing in 1879, where elaborate wall and ceiling stenciling and
marqetry floors decorated the office of the Secretary.
D.
Many of the most celebrated national figures have
participated in historical events that have taken place within the
EEOB’s granite walls. Theodore and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, and George H. W. Bush
all had offices in this building before becoming President.
It has housed 16 Secretaries of the Navy, 21 Secretaries of War,
and 24 Secretaries of State. Winston Churchill once walked its
corridors and Japanese emissaries met here with Secretary of State
Cordell Hull after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
