Public Works Building (Washington, D.C.)
USA /
District of Columbia /
Washington /
Washington, D.C. /
E Street Northwest, 410
World
/ USA
/ District of Columbia
/ Washington
World / United States / District of Columbia
office building, federal government, New Deal Depression Relief Project [1933-1945]
Constructed 1938-1940 with assistance from the Public Works Administration (PWA), a New Deal program that operated during the Great Depression between 1933 and 1944. The program provided funds to private contractors to build large-scale projects proposed by states as a means of economic stimulus.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°53'44"N 77°1'0"W
- United States Department of Labor 0.2 km
- Government Accountability Office Building 0.5 km
- Russell Senate Office Building 0.8 km
- Postal Square Building 0.8 km
- J. Edgar Hoover Building 0.8 km
- Internal Revenue Service Building 1 km
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 1.1 km
- William J. Clinton Federal Building 1.1 km
- CityCenterDC 1.1 km
- National Place 1.3 km
- Judiciary Square
- Chinatown 0.5 km
- National Gallery of Art 0.5 km
- Mount Vernon Square (neighborhood) 0.8 km
- Federal Triangle 0.8 km
- Smithsonian Institution Campus 0.9 km
- Penn Quarter 0.9 km
- Capitol Grounds 0.9 km
- The National Mall 1.8 km
- Downtown 1.9 km