Evening star., 1955-07-28
f FederoI Projects Here
t otoI $3.50 Million

The Senate Public Works Com.
mittee has not acted.
The $20.2 million Southwest
Federal Office Building to be
constructed as one phase of the
redevelopment program in that
section of the city. 1t is tenta-
lively planned as. a six-story
Iail conditioned structure, hous-
ing some 1000 workers.
Action on this building was
deferred today by House Pub
lie Works subcommittee.
The $36 million Museum Of
History and Technology, Smith
|sonian Institution, to be erected
on Constitution avenue, between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets
NV. The supplemental bill con-
tains $2.2 million for planning.
design and execution of detailed
drawings and specifications for
this.
Congress has appropriated IS
million for the proposed $35 mil
lion House Office Building, to be
erected west of the existing
structure and to be built at
Independence and Delaware
avenues S.W. The Office of the
Architect of the Capitol says the
exact amount of this project
has not yet been determined.
Proposed extension of the east
front of the Capitol is still in
the planning stage and some IS
million has been tentatively
planned for this project.
Under construction on Capi-
tol Hill is the new Senate Office
Building. The foundations Of
this $21.7 million structure,
which includes acquisition Of
the site, just east of the existing
Senate Office Building, are about
completed.
Awaiting President Eisenhow-
erS signature is the Health. Ed
ucation and Welfare appropria-
tion bill for the new fiscal year.
This includes funds for launch
ing the 81 million new maximum
security building at st. Eliza
beths Hospital. This will replace
Howard Hall, to which prisoner
patients are admitted.
Also in this appropriation bill
is an item for $2,225, 900 for q
physical education and activi-
ties building, a heating plant
and a college women's dormitory
at Gallaudet College.
Howard U. Projects
At Howard University, actual
construction is due to get under
way shortly on these projects.
for which money has already
been appropriated:
$40 million preclinical medical
a S34 million fine arts building and
NJ million mems dormitory.
tna Under 4I way & at Howard University are
A College of Pharmacy. which should
&c Seoo Occupied 09ap in September, costinE
A SIS million biology sreenbo,s. IN
be occupied before the end Of the yeaT
81 million School of Law which
shoui9 oe rea9y by next spring.
Sl.6 million administration to bs
completed py next summer.
These buildings are all on the Howard
university campus.
GaIlaudet Library
In the next few days, Gallaudet Col.
isse iibsa p plans to break ground for a new
is expected to be completed next March.
In the final stages of construction
Is s. me me- new admission and intensive
pital This is Sc million project. The
building proper is just about Completed
and off1ciais expect to occupy 1t around
1t Will have have about 400 beds
e.. A S30O,000 chapel is now under con-
struction also at st. Elizabeths This is
expected to be completed about next
:. Coneress recently authorized the set
ting up of a special commission to study
he projected Cultural sCenter in South.
A building project that has received
,cant consideration from those with the
purse strings in Congress is the proi-
ected new Veterans Administration hos.
oital here. A site was selected for it on
he Soldiers Home grounds, near the
District Hospital Center. While oficials
'ay It is part of the postwar program
of the agency the project is marking
lime for lack Of funds,
Planned. for the future, Under lease
purchase Hesitation. are new buildings
or the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the
Weather Bureau and the Geological
Survey. These are earmarked for con-
'truction under lease-purchase. Among
Services Administration In the supple.
mental appropriation bill are funds
ooking to the launching Of these and
,ther projects.