Civil Service Commission Building

ID: 3258 ~ Source: National Register Nomination Form Images

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Civil Service Commission: Housed in this building from 1911 to 1950, the Civil Service Commission played a major role in setting the conditions of employment for the federal bureaucracy.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Erected in 1911 by the Samuel J. Prescott Company to a design by prominent Washington architect Appleton P. Clark, Jr., the Civil Service Commission building exemplifies the early-20th century office…