Buildings - Department History
Buildings of the Department of State
- Einführung
- Original Foreword
- The Period of the Continental Congress
- Carpenters’ Hall, Philadelphia
Sept. 5, 1774—Oct. 26, 1774 - Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall),
Philadelphia
Intermittingly from May 10, 1775 to March 1, 1781 -
Henry Fite’s House, Baltimore
Dec. 20, 1776—Feb. 27, 1777 - Court House, Lancaster
Sept. 27, 1777 - Court House, York
Sept. 30, 1777-June 27, 1778 -
13 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia
October 1781-June 1783 - Nassau Hall, Princeton, N.J.
June 30, 1783—Nov. 4, 1783 - State House, Annapolis
Nov. 26, 1783—Aug. 19, 1784 - French Arms Tavern, Trenton
Nov. 1—Dec. 24, 1784 - Fraunces Tavern, New York City
Jan. 11, 1785—Apr. 30, 1788 - First Location on Broadway, New York City
May 1—Oct. 2, 1788 - Second Location on Broadway, New York City
Oct. 2, 1788—Oct. 1790 -
307 Market Street, Philadelphia
October 1790—April 1793 -
287 Market Street, Philadelphia
April 1793—May 1794 - Sixth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia
May 1794—October 1796 -
North Street, Philadelphia
Oct. 29, 1796—Aug. 31, 1797 - State House, Trenton
August—November 1797, 1798, 1799 -
13 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia
November 1797—May 1800 - Treasury Department Building, Washington
June—August 1800 - One of the “Six Buildings,” Washington
September 1800-May 1801 - Public Building West of the White House
May 1801—August 1814 -
G Street Near Eighteenth Street
Sept. 1814—March 1816 -
Rebuilt Public Building West of the White House
April 1816—August 1819 -
Northeast Executive Building
August, September 1819-November 1866 -
Washington City Orphan Asylum
November 1866-July 1875 -
State, War, and Navy Building
July 1875-April 1947 -
New State Building
April 1947—present - Extended, remodeled New State Building
- Appendix
Annex Buildings Occupied by the Department of State - Photo Credits
- Publication Information