Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building (Washington, D.C.)

 office building, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1940_construction, federal government, New Deal Depression Relief Project [1933-1945]

The Mary Switzer Building is a federal office building in Washington D.C., now housing the Social Security Administration and the United States Information Service.

It was designed by Charles Klauder and Louis A. Simon and completed on September 15, 1940. Although intended for the Railroad Retirement Board, its first occupant was to the United States Department of War. By Act of Congress, it was renamed the Mary E. Switzer Memorial Building on October 21, 1972, becoming the first federal building to be named for a woman.

The Switzer Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 6, 2007.

The building was constructed in conjunction with the Federal Works Agency (FWA), one of a plethora of federal agencies operating under the New Deal during the Great Depression.