United States Department of Agriculture South Building

The U.S. Department of Agriculture South Building was built from 1930 to the additional office of the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC accommodate. The construction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Administration Building on the north side of Independence Avenue was indeed finished in 1930, but the necessary result of the global economic crisis set in motion agricultural programs, additional staff and additional office space could be accommodated as the main building. The erection of the building was carried out in several stages. The building was registered on 5 July 2007 in the National Register of Historic Places.

The building was finished in 1936 and was up to the completion of the Pentagon, the largest office building in the world. It has a width of 140 m and a length of 288 m. Around 4,500 offices spread across seven floors. The architecture of the building Louis A. Simon is attributed, who worked in the Federal Office of the Supervising Architect. The South Building is the main building of the Ministry closed by two pedestrian bridges connected, which cross the Independence Avenue. The new building included both offices and laboratories. Originally it was called " Extensible Building" because it could be expanded in phases.

Stylistically, the South Building a scaled-down application of neoclassicism, with classic shapes and proportions are used, but was without expensive and time-consuming in the construction details. Such a construction has been more and more used in government buildings in the United States until it was replaced by modernity. The high point of this construction in the construction of the Pentagon. In the South Building of the lower volume of detailing also expressed to the subordinate importance of the building to the main building of the Ministry opposite. The interior is based on a strictly observed network of corridors, vary only the auditorium and the library of the. It is still kept simple as the external view of the building.

The building is divided into seven aligned in north-south direction wings that are connected by the Head House on Independence Avenue and the Tailhouse on C Street. The plan was that the walls were visible on the 12th and 14th Street from the National Mall from, so that they were covered in limestone. The facades on C Street and Independence Avenue were not visible from there, which is why bricks used in these pages as the primary building material and limestone and terracotta components were only partially used. The page for the 14th street has a monumental entrance with sixteen Corinthian columns. At the other locations show relief panels between the windows in the United States domestic animals. These panels were created by the sculptor Edwin Morris.

Since the relocation of the laboratories in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the building is used exclusively for administrative purposes.