Evening star., 1926-06-06
FOUR BIG FEDERAL
BUILDINGS WILL BE
BEGUN HERE SOON
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''fire-traps." Offlcials of the bureau
| have estimated that a saving of be-
tween 25 and 80 per cent of the cost
| of collecting the Governments taxes
| could be effected by concentration of
the work in one building, instead Of
scattering it in ten, some OF them
more than mile apart.
! The income tax unit now has half
| a dozen buildings-Annex No. l, at
! the corner Of Pennsylvania avenue
| and Madison place; Annex No. 2, at
| Fourteenth and b streets; Building
| G. at Sixth and B streets southwest
| Building No. 5, Twentieth and G
streets; the Pettus Building, Nine
| teenth street and Virginia avenue
| and the premises at 462 Louisiana
| avenue.
| Units Split Up.
| The prohibition unit occupies por.
] tions of Building G, at Sixth and B
streets southwest; premises 1882
Pennsylvania avenue, the Graham
Building. 14th and Z streets, and the
| Treasury Building.
The miscellaneous tax unit also is
| in Building c, the accounts and col.
| iectlons unit is in Temporary Build,
the office of the solicitor of internal
revenue is in the Interior Building.
and the Offices of the commissioner
assistant commissioner, the intelli-
gence unit, the division of supplies
and equipment and the appointment
division are In the Treasury Building
Ihe new Department of Commerce
headquarters will be situated lust
south OF the proposed new home for
the department of Justice, which is
ueStlhed to replace Polls Theater at
I Ine corner OF Fifthteenth street and
Iennsylvania avenue. The Justice
Building was not mentioned in yes
terdays s announcement of initial esti.
mates. The Department of Com
merce faces expiration within two
years of its present lease on the pri.
vately owned building at Nineteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue. The
owners have indicated their reluct-
ance to extend the lease further.
33 Commerce Offices.
The Commerce Department now is
housed in 33 different buildings, some
of which are not fireproof 1t is pay
ing more than $685. 900 a year in rent
for its administration building alone
Other buildings housing parts of the
department include the Hurley-Wright
Building at Eighteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, the Bureau Of
Fisheries group at Sixth and b streets
southwest, Temporary Building d at
Sixth street and Missouri avenue
southeast. the octet of Coast and Geo
detic Survey buildings at New Jersey
avenue and b street southeast, the
Patent Office at Ninth and r streets,
II Bureau of Standards structures,
the old Land Office Building and the
Interior Department.
Work on the central portion of the
Department of Agriculture building
will be facilitated because the site
already is available and the plans
| for the addition are ready. The con-
/ Meeting link between the separate
wings will form complete architec-
| tural unit. Because of its artistic de-
sign, in conformity with the res
mainder of the structure. the new
/ portion will not provide the most ad-
vantageous use of space afforded by
| a simpler edifice. The new general
| Office building, estimated for by the
| Treasury, will be of large proper.
! tions, sufficient to meet the office
! space demands of the various bureaus
and divisions of the department, now
| scattered in rented structures nearby
The appropriation for the Govern
| ment Printing Office will be used, it
| is understood, to acquire what is
known as the old Yale Laundry site.
just west OF the new print shop. 1t
has been proposed that an addition
costing approximately $1.250.O0O be
! erected on this site, enabling the
| public printer to vacate the old office
| at the corner of North Capitol and ii
streets and replace them by modern,
fireproof buildings.
List Of Projects.
Following are the cities in which
it is planned to start work on new
Federal buildings this Summer, if
Congress approves, with the esti-
mated cost of the buildings and the
appropriation which will be asked for
this years work: