Architectural detail - EPA Building : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Architectural detail - EPA Building / Tim Evanson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Architectural detail on the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters on Woodrow Wilson Plaza.In 1924, the Public Buildings Commission recommended that a new series of federal office buildings be built near the White House. The plan called for a complex of buildings to be built at "Murder Bay" -- a muddy, flood-prone, malaria-ridden, poverty-stricken region lacking in paved roads, sewer system, and running water and almost exclusively home to numerous brothels and an extensive criminal underclass.Excavation work on the ICC building finally began in April 1931. The Board of Architectural Consultants approved the design plans for the Labor/ICC building in 1932. President Herbert Hoover laid two cornerstones on December 15, 1932, for the Labor/ICC building. Workers who were Freemasons assisted the President in laying the cornerstones. Hoover personally oversaw the dedication of the cornerstone at the Labor end of the building. His words were broadcast over loudspeaker to the workers at the ICC end of the structure, who placed the ICC cornerstone simultaneously at the President's instruction (becoming the first time in Washington history that a single person dedicated two cornerstones at the same time). William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, attended the laying of the cornerstone for the Labor building. Hoover used the trowel used by Washington to lay the cornerstone of the Capitol.Numerous strikes delayed the opening of the buildings for almost a year. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins dedicated the two buildings at a ceremony in the Departmental Auditorium on February 26, 1935, attended by AFL President William Green. The Labor building's final cost was $4.5 millionand the ICC portion of the structure cost $4.45 million. The two buildings were connected by the 2,000-seat Departmental Auditorium (renamed the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in 1987).It originally consisted of two buildings. The Department of Labor occupied the western wing, and the Interstate Commerce Commission occupied the eastern wing. They are joined in the middle by the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium.The ICC was abolished in 1995, and this wing stood empty. The Department of Labor vacated the west building in 1979, after which the U.S. Customs Service occupied the structure. Customs vacated the structure in 2000. A major of both wings occurred, and in 2002 the Environmental Protection Agency took over both wings (now known as EPA East and EPA West). |
| 撮影日 | 2011-04-24 10:14:31 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D Mark II , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.002 sec (1/500) |
| 開放F値 | f/4.5 |
| 焦点距離 | 65 mm |