Eisenhower Executive Office Building

at 639 17th St NW, Washington , 20006 United States

1. Government Organization

Description

The Eisenhower Executive Office Building — formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building and even earlier as the State, War, and Navy Building — is a U.S. government building situated just west of the White House in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C. Maintained by the General Services Administration, it is occupied by the Executive Office of the President, including the Office of the Vice President of the United States.Located on 17th Street NW, between Pennsylvania Avenue and New York Avenue, and West Executive Drive, the building, commissioned by Ulysses S. Grant, built between 1871 and 1888, on the site of the original 1800 War/State/Navy Building and the White House stables, in the French Second Empire style, is a National Historic Landmark. It was for years the world's largest office building, with 566 rooms and about ten acres of floor space. Many White House employees have their offices in the massive edifice.HistoryIn 1802 the Washington Jockey Club lay at the rear of what is now the site of Decatur House at H Street and Jackson Place, crossing Seventeenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to Twentieth Street-today the Eisenhower Executive Office Building-having been completed only 4 years earlier in 1798 as the stonemasons had finished the brick and painters applied white paint to the President's House.

Company Rating

559 FB users likes Eisenhower Executive Office Building, set it to 51 position in Likes Rating for Washington, District of Columbia in Government Organization category

Summary

Eisenhower Executive Office Building is Washington based place and this enity listed in Government Organization category. Located at 639 17th St NW DC 20006. Contact phone number of Eisenhower Executive Office Building: (202) 395-5895