War Department (State Department) - View this location on map One of only two executed portions of the 1935 plan for Federal buildings in the Northwest Rectangle; monumental rectangular composition in 'stripped classical' style; facades of shotsawn limestone trimmed with polished red granite, abstract colossal portico; exterior sculpture never installed; interior murals; built 1939-41, Gilbert S. Underwood and William Dewey Foster, consulting architects, under Supervising Architect Louis A. Simon of Public Buildings Service; occupied by the State Department beginning in 1947 21st and E Streets, NW, Washington , DC Historical

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