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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 best 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 eme
rged 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.
