US Department of the Interior Building, view of south elevation, main entrance, prior to construction of Simon Bolivar Park and the Pan American Union Complex, April 1938

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US Department of the Interior Building, view of south elevation, main entrance, prior to construction of Simon Bolivar Park and the Pan American Union Complex, April 1938

Credit: A.T. Kelley, NPS Historic Negative Collection

This file appears in: Department of the Interior (New Interior Building)

Commissioned by the Roosevelt administration in 1934, designed by architect Waddy Butler Wood, and supervised throughout by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, the Interior Building was dedicated on April 16, 1936. The building's exterior…