Evening star., 1941-05-23
Two More Sites
u. 5. Buildings
Plans for Five Are
Revealed After
Northwest Selection

Expanding defense agencies
neceSsituted appropriation of 81
100000 early in March for tenn
porary Federal Office buildings.
Original Public Buildings Admin
istrdtion plans called for sir
structures. some OF them in near
by Virginia. Making money
available Congress ruled that
buildings must be located in Dis
trict on Government olDned prop
erty. Necessary reDision OF plans
caused delay in selection of sites
and change in number of build
ingS.
An end to the search for District
sites for temporary Government
Office buildings was seen today in an
announcement by Federal Works
Administrator Carmody that he
agrees with the National Capital
Park and Planning Commissions
approval of two new locations in the
northwest sector.
At the same time. 1t was learned
that the Public Buildings Admini-
stration already has drawn plans for
five buildings on the two sites and
that they will contain a total of
more than $4,000 square feet of
office space.
This space, added to the space to
be provided in four buildings for
which sites announced several days
ago. aggregates approximately 300 900
square feet, the figures Clay Guth-
ridge, chief of space control for the
P. B. A., estimated would be neces-
sary to house expanding defense
personnel.
Four Sites Approved.
Mr.. Carmody announcement fol-
lowed closely the planning COM
missions statement yesterday that ii
considers suitable sites for the build
ings the park land on the northeast
side of the intersection of Consti-
tuition avenue and TWenty-SiXth
street NV. and the area back of
the new War Department Building
between Twenty second and Twen-
ty-Third and c and D streets NV.
The commission also approved two
sites previously named by Mr..
Carmody on the Mall and the
grounds of the Army War College.
With the commissions revelation,
the P. B. A. produced its plans for
the buildings. These foresee three
structures behind the new War De-
partment Building. the "U"-shaped.
each providing 36.930 square feet of
Office space, and the third T.
shaped and containing IS, ,43O feet
of space.
On Constitution avenue, the P B.
A. emissions two buildings with 49,
600 and 66,964 square feet of space.
Final design of the two has not been
decided upon. although it was said
they probably would be comb
shaped. as are the four buildings
planned for the Mall and the Army
War College.
The Mall building, for which a
construction contract was let We'd
nesday, is to contain 10000 square
feet of Office space. Three buildings
planned for the War College grounds
are to contain, In all, 405 900 square
feet of space.
Reynolds May Force Change.
There still appeared the possibility
that tho UTor Co1looa 60 will ho
abandoned because of the opposition
of Chairman Reynolds of the Senate
Military Affaires Committee.
Mr.. Reynolds, former chairman of
the Senate District Committee, an
nounced several days ago he was
opposed to putting temporary office
buildings there because of secret
military work going on at the War
College. He indicated he is in favor
of placing the structures outside
the city.
During debate on the fifth supple
ment defense bill which made avail
able the S4,100,000 for construction
of the temporary buildings, Mr..
Reynolds urged that they be con-
fined to Government -owned land
within the District of Columbia.
This was the first indication that
difficulty would be encountered in
finding places to put up the build
ings and as a result, the P. B. A.
had to revise its original plans,
which entailed situating some of the
structures in nearby Arlington
County, Va.