Old Post Office Pavilion

The Old Post Office Pavilion, also known as Old Post Office and Clock Tower and 1983 officially renamed the Nancy Hanks Center, is a historic complex of buildings of the government on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC in the United States.

History

In 1880 the United States Congress approved the construction of a new post- building. The Old Post Office Pavilion was built 1892-1899 and was on completion the tallest building in Washington DC (Today is the third tallest building in the District of Columbia, the Old Post Office according to the Washington Monument and the Basilica ). The building was renamed in 1983 in honor of Nancy Hanks ( 1927-1983, first female chairman of the State National Endowment for the Arts ) in Nancy Hanks Center and is part of the Federal Triangle. The building is now the headquarters of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National Endowment for the Arts and serves as a museum.

On April 11, 1973, the Old Post Office and Clock Tower was added to the number 73,002,105 in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site.