| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 1 — America's Main Street Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The broadest and most important street in Pierre L'Enfant's Plan of 1791 for the nation's capital connects to the Capitol and the White House. Pennsylvania Avenue. Almost every American knows its name. Almost every visitor to the Washington sets foot on it. As America's Main Street, Pennsylvania Avenue is where Americans practice their rights to free speech and assembly. It is our ceremonial stage, where the nation comes together to celebrate - new presidents, national holidays, and victories . . . — Map (db m57215) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 5 — Appointed Rounds Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The imposing Ariel Rios Building opened in 1934 to house the U.S. Post Office Department. Architect William A. Delano, of the New York firm Delano and Aldrich, drew inspiration from Paris and other European cities to design the building's unusual hourglass shape. The building, including a ground-level arcade and a Parisian-inspired slate mansard roof, was intended to face a circular court planned to span 12th Street. The plan, however, required demolition of the Old Post Office. Its destruction . . . — Map (db m57207) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 6 — Arts and Artists Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | Woodrow Wilson Plaza honors President Woodrow Wilson, noted scholar and former president of Princeton University. Located just inside the Ronald Reagan building ahead is the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation's memorial to our 29th president. The nonpartisan institution studies national and world affairs. Installed in the lively plaza are monumental sculptures by two Washington-born artists: the cast-aluminum Federal Triangle Flowers by Stephen Robin and the . . . — Map (db m57208) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 9 — Completing the Triangle Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center honoring the 40th president, filled the last open space in the Federal Triangle. When former First Lady Nancy Reagan dedicated it in 1998, the redevelopment of this area of Pennsylvania Avenue, begun by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, was complete. The Reagan Building's 3.1 million square feet of space make it the second-largest federal building. Only the Pentagon is larger.
The only Federal Triangle building with both private and . . . — Map (db m57205) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 14 — Equal Justice Under the Law Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The roots of America's top law enforcement agency, the Department of Justice, reach back to 1789. That year the first Congress created the Office of the Attorney General to prosecute lawsuits in the Supreme Court and advise the President and the Cabinet on matters of law. In 1870, after the Civil War spurred an increase in lawsuits, Congress created the Department of Justice to address the increasing demands on the attorney general's office. The Department's modern mission is to enforce the . . . — Map (db m57214) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 11 — From Workers to Environment Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, whose mission is to protect human health and the environment, has occupied the majority of offices in this block since 2001. EPA West (this building), the adjacent Mellon Auditorium, and the EPA East building share once continuous, monumental faη designed by Arthur Brown, Jr. The projecting temple front of the auditorium, colonnades at both ends, and generous sculptures unify the complex. Because this 1934 building originally housed the Department of . . . — Map (db m57210) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 3 — G-Men and G-Women Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The Federal Bureau of Investigation is headquartered across Pennsylvania Avenue from this spot. Thanks to popular media, it may be one of the better-known government agencies. Since the 1930s Hollywood has found great stories among the "G-men" (government agents). The FBI often cooperates in these productions. The FBI was established in 1908 as the Justice Department's detective unit. Its agents investigated allegations of investment fraud, opium smuggling, munitions trafficking, and other . . . — Map (db m57218) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 2 — Grandeur for the People Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The National Archives, keeper of the nation's founding documents and most important federal government records, occupies this important spot halfway between the Capitol and the White House. Before the Archives building was constructed, federal records were stored haphazardly all over town. The nation's first archivist began centralizing them here in 1935. In 1898 the United States won the Spanish-American War, and national leaders began questioning whether their capital city reflected the . . . — Map (db m57217) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 12 — Keeping it Green Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is the youngest agency housed here in the Federal Triangle. Established as an independent agency in 1970, EPA protects human health and the environment through science, transparency, and the rule of law. This building, designed by San Francisco architect Arthur Brown, Jr., originally housed the Interstate Commerce Commission, which regulated transportation of goods between the states. Like its Federal Triangle neighbors, the building was richly finished . . . — Map (db m57211) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 8 — Open For Business Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | Across the street the Department of Commerce's Herbert C. Hoover Building anchors the Federal Triangle, just as the department - with its mission of promoting trade, supporting economic development, and strengthening the competitiveness of American companies - historically anchors the U.S. economy. Upon completion in 1932, the building was the world's largest office complex, covering almost eight acres and filling three city blocks with 3,300 rooms. It brought under one roof offices that had . . . — Map (db m57204) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 13 — Our Tax Dollars Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | While only Congress - the people's elected representatives - can impose taxes and decide how they are spent, the Internal Revenue Service, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury, ensures those taxes are collected fairly and efficiently. The IRS building reminds citizens what their tax dollars buy. In the words of the great jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes engraved over the building's entrance, "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." Revenue collected by the IRS pays for everything from national . . . — Map (db m57212) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 4 — Preserving the Past Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | This massive granite building was completed in 1899 to house the U.S. Post Office Department and the busy city post office. Designed by the U.S. Treasury Department architects under Willoughby J. Edbrooke, it was Washingtons first steel-frame building.
Three decades after opening, this building almost fell to the wrecking ball. Its Romanesque Revival architecture did not match the Beaux-Arts style planned for the Federal Triangle, and it blocked construction of a wing of the IRS building . . . — Map (db m65355) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 16 — Protecting Consumers and Competition Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | This is the Federal Trade Commission Building, home of the agency that defends the public against unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices. One of the older independent Federal agencies, the FTC was created in 1914 and has occupied this site since the building was completed in 1938. It works to protect the competitive marketplace and interests of consumers through litigation, consumer and business education, public hearings, and enforcement of regulations such as . . . — Map (db m59219) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 10 — The Division Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | Soon after the Federal government moved to Washington in 1800, this area attracted shops and stables to serve the new residents. But where Constitution Avenue runs today, just south of this sign, Tiber Creek flowed - and often flooded. In 1815 engineers channeled the creek into the new Washington Canal. By 1860, however, the canal had deteriorated into an open sewer. Impoverished families, both African American and white, lived in small wood-frame houses along unpaved, often muddy streets and . . . — Map (db m57209) HM |
| District of Columbia (Washington), Federal Triangle — 7 — Washington, DC: Capital and City Make No Little Plans Federal Triangle Heritage Trail |
| | This is the John A. Wilson Building, Washington, DC's city hall, home to DC's mayor and city council. When completed in 1908, it was known as the District Building (for District of Columbia). Cope and Stewardson of Philadelphia won the competition to design it in the Beaux-Arts style favored by the McMillian Commission, which was charged with remaking this area in 1901. Built on the site of a streetcar powerhouse destroyed by fire in 1897, it is the only building in the Federal Triangle . . . — Map (db m57141) HM |
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