Evening star., 1934-02-08
SEVEN FEDERAL
PROJECTS IN D. c.
MAKING PROGRESS
Revenue Building Addition
Largest on List in .
Treasury Report.
BIDS TO BE ASKED
SOON ON RAZING WORK
Warehouse Addition in Southwest
Section, Costing $l,750,0Oo,
Second Largest Job.

substantial progress is being made
on seven construction jobs authorized
for the District of Columbia out of
Public Works Administration funds
totaling s4,316,OO0 under supervision
of the Treasury Department. accord
ing to an official Treasury report made
public today.
The largest of these is the addition
to the Internal Revenue Building
plans for which were approved yes
terday by the Fine Arts Commission
and returned this morning to Assistant
secretary OF the Treasury L. w. Rob-
ert, Jr, for final action. This plan. it
is understood. will be submitted shortly
to Secretary OF the Treasury Morgen-
thau and arrangements made to go
forward with construction of this i'm
portant part Of the Federal triangle
project. The structure for which
public works authorized $4,000 900 is
to be erected on the square bounded
By Tenth and Eleventh, c streets and
Pennsylvania avenue. from which
tenants have been ordered to move.
Most of the old buildings there are
now vacant. The first contract will
ana construction of foundation. Bids
probably Will be asked soon on this lob
Warehouse Addition Work.
The next largest job of the Treas
ury for public works is the addi-
ton to the Federal warehouse in
Southwest Washington, which vir-
tually VIII double its capacity by the
expenditure of S1.75O.0OO. Already
some parts of the old supervising
architects office of the Treasury De-
partment. now known as the public
works branch OF the new procurement
division. are being moved to the Fed
eral warehouse and the architects
personnel from several buildings soon
will be concentrated there. Plans
for this warehouse extension are we'll
along in the hands Of the Treasury
architects themselves.
Three other jobs in the hands of
the Treasury for public works on
which progress is being made are
remodelirg Of the fourth floor of the
Treasury. $40. 900; an additional story
on the new Treasury vault in the
north court of the Departmental
Building. $4,000, and a change in
the Department of Agriculture ex-
tenSible building 70 provide passage
ways connecting the library with the
stack room. $1,000
Outside architects are busy on two
other public works projects. j. H.
De SibCur. Washington architect. is
drawing plans for complete remod-
cling of the old Pension Office Build
ing at Fifth and G streets, so as to
rearrange the interior for more ef-
fectlIe occupancy. to add wing to
both the East and West ends and to
resurface the entire structure to con-
form more harmoniously with the
style of architecture Of the nearby
District Supreme Court and Court of
Appeals Buildings. The old Pension
Office is now red brick, while the
courthouse buildings are faced with
marble.
Waddy B. Wood, local architect, is
preparing plans for the unusual pro-
ject of tunnel TO connect the White
House with the State Department be-
meath the intervening street Public
works funds in the amount of Sl9,-
600 have been aliocated for the pre-
parat1on of these plans. Mr.. Woods
prepared plans by which the Govern
ment some time ago intended to re-
surface and remodel the old State.
War and Navy Building to conform in
architecture with its companion, the
Treasury Department on the other
side of the White House This re-
modelling job. however. has never
been carried out. although Mr. Woods
plans were completed
The Treasury report c1 public
works projects as of January 81
showed the total amount allocated as
S65, ,666,653.