State, War, and Navy Building, view of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street sides of the Executive Office Building, taken from the northwest, April 1969
This file appears in: State, War and Navy Building (Old Executive Office Building; Eisenhower Building)
Credit: Leo J. Schmittel, NCPC
This file appears in: State, War and Navy Building (Old Executive Office Building; Eisenhower Building)
State, War and Navy Building (Old Executive Office Building; Eisenhower Building)
The State, War, and Navy Building was built just west of the White House between 1871 and 1888, based on designs by architect Alfred B. Mullett. Like the Greek Revival Treasury Building to the east in ground plan, the Second Empire version of French…