Herbert C. Hoover Building

The Herbert C. Hoover Building is the headquarters of the Ministry of Commerce of the United States in Washington, DC.

The building is located in the 1401 Constitution Avenue NW. It belongs to a block in the south of Constitution Avenue, NW, in the north of Pennsylvania Avenue NW, is enclosed in the west of 15th Street NW and east of 14th Street NW. It is located in the Federal Triangle, east of the ellipse, north of the National Mall and west of the further building of the Ministry of Commerce, the John A. Wilson Building and the Ronald Reagan Building. The building is owned by the General Services Administration.

The building was completed in 1932 and renamed in 1981 by Herbert Hoover. Hoover was from 1921 to 1928 and Minister of Economics from 1929 to 1933 President of the United States. The closest Metrorail station is located at the Federal Triangle.

The National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. ( in the basement ) and the visitor center of the White House ( ground floor) are also located in this building.

History

The Ministry of Commerce was founded after President William Howard Taft on the last day of his term of office, 4 March 1931 had signed the law on the division of the " Ministry of Trade and Labor " in the Trade and the Ministry of Labour.

In 1928, Congress approved the purchase of land, which today as the " Federal Triangle for departmental offices". The approval was part of a wave of state construction projects. The law for public buildings allowed the government to engage private architects for the design of public buildings. This led to a large-scale construction of public buildings, including the development of 280,000 m² Federal Triangle area between the Capitol and the White House. A short time later developed Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, and a panel of architectural consultants a directive for the design of the site. The panel consisted of leading architects and was directed by Edward H. Bennett designed by the architects Bennett, Parsons, and Frost from Chicago. Under Bennett's leadership, each member designed a building in Federal Triangle complex to provide a building to any government agency or department that meets all functional requirements, while the combination of the individual buildings provide a harmonious, monumental overall impression of the dignity and authority of the Government of the United States underscores. Louis Ayres, a member of the committee, was selected as the architect for the building of the Department of Commerce. Ayres, Arthur Brown Jr. ( with the Interstate Commerce Commission building commissioned ), and William Adams Delano ( selected for the United States Post Office Department Building ) were commissioned to design the western area of ​​the triangle and the creation of a green, shady promenade.

Construction began on 4 October 1927, when Herbert C. Hoover was trade minister. The foundation stone was set on July 10, 1929 at the beginning of Hoover's term as president. The building was completed in 1932 and at that time was the largest office building in the world. In 1981, the building was was on 25 April 1983 to coincide with the publication of the first edition of the biography The Life of Herbert Hoover because of a federal law by Hoover umbenannt.Die official inauguration as Herbert C. Hoover Building: The Engineer. by George H. Nash

Construction and design

The building is rectangular and measures approximately 98 meters from east to west and 310 meters from north to south. It forms almost the entire west side of the Federal Triangle from Constitution Avenue to E Street. The building contains 3,300 rooms, which was 300 meters long corridors connected sind.Flexible subdivisions instead of rigid walls, a part of the original design to allow many of the authorities, a change in the organization of the departments. The New York Times Has Described it as " sprawling. "

The Malcolm Baldrige Great Hall (named after Howard M. Baldrige, Jr., Minister of Economic Affairs from 1981 to 1985 under Ronald Reagan), is located on the ground floor of the northern end of the building, overlooking Pennsylvania Avenue. It houses the visitor center of the White House, operated by the National Park Service. The Great Hall is 69 meters long and 19 meters wide and was originally a patent directory with more than 3 million patents have been issued by the Ministry of Commerce, to which the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office heard cataloged. { Under the Zweihunderjahrfeierlichkeiten of the United States was the Great Hall for " visitor center for the Bicentennial ." Until 1989 it was home to the Tourist Information Center of the city of Washington. Renovation work began in July 1993 with the restoration of the ornate plaster ceiling to make the simple elegance of the great hall again. The original walls of Indiana limestone, the bronze doors decorated floors from Vermont marble and Italian bronze candlesticks were cleaned and renovated. In March 1995, the visitor center of the White House was finally opened.

Characteristics of other buildings in the Federal Triangle in the 1930s are found in the building, including the courtyards ( The supply of the inner offices with natural light and the air exchange are guaranteed by six courtyards. ) And a neo-classical style ( Doric colonnades on three sides ).

The façade on 15th Street extends along the length of 3 blocks and has four pavilions with flat triangular gables in the Greek style. These are decorated with sculpture by James Earle Fraser and Haig Patigian. The National Aquarium is located in the basement and is open to the public, the Department of Commerce Library Services Branch, a library that is mainly used by government officials and scientists since the completion of the building, is also located in the building

In the lobby of the Hoover Building is the population clock, as the United States Census Bureau is part of the Department of Commerce. In 1982, the clock malfunction, as they indicated as estimated about 50 million more Americans were ..

Credentials

• This article incorporates text from the General Services Administration and the National Park Service, which are as a work of the United States government public domain.