Exterior of the Lafayette Building

ID: 5080 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Export-Import Bank

This file appears in: Lafayette Building (Export-Import Bank): Constructed in 1940, this government building ultimately housed the financial minds that contributed to an Allied victory in World War II.

Lafayette Building (Export-Import Bank): Constructed in 1940, this government building ultimately housed the financial minds that contributed to an Allied victory in World War II.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Designed in 1939 in the Stripped Classical style, this limestone-clad office building is twelve stories tall, and centrally located near the White House, between McPherson and Lafayette squares. The…