Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
New Building to TotoI
$500 Million in Area


pital. So million. New Medical
and Dental Students Dormi-
tory. also in the Medical Gen.
ter, $l.250.00Q. to be ready in
September. Dormitory and din
ing hall for the College of Arts
and Sciences, $2.6 million. with
ground to be broken in June.
viii house about 400 students
in double rooms. viii seat 1900
in the dining hall section. To
be built on the south side Of
the main campus. overlooking,
the Potomac River.
Capitol Hill: New Senate
once Building. $23, 100000 and
new House once Building. $64
million.
State Department Building:
Total cost upwards of $50 mil
lion. at Twenty-third and c
streets NV.
Central Intelligence Agency
near Langley; Va: Preliminary
work under way with project
to cost $46 million. Construc-
ton contracts expected to be
made shortly.
Maximum Security Building,
st. Elizabeths Hospital. $5.11S,-
900 and $l,129.000 for a steam
tunnel there; remodeling of the
William A. White Building at
the hospital. $4,000. Coal
handling equipment, 1921 900.
Gallaudet College,, Girls
dormitory, $4,000; physical
education building, 81 ,327 900;
classroom and laboratory build
ing. $1,148.000; hearing and
speech center. $238, 900.
Howard University: Medical
building, $3.50, 900, and mems
dormitory. $1,S01. 900.
Institutes Of Health
National Institutes Of Health:
Buildings F and q. $1.116.000.
Bids to be opened in about a
month for Division Of Biologic
Standards building. expected to
cost around SIS million. New
surgical wing for heart and
neurology work, expected to
cost around SIG million. Ten
tative drawings at Budget Bu-
reau for approval.
Washington's National Air
port: Baggage room $175,O00;
Extension Of canopy $4,000:
facilities and baggage room
$457, 900.
Equitable Life Insurance Co.:
new building at 5000 Wisconsin
avenue, NV, SIS million. Ex-
pect to move in about the end
of June.
The General Services Ad-
ministration has an ambitious
construction program for the
future, also. p. Moran McCon-
nihe, Commissioner Of Public
Buildings Service Of GSA, re-
vealed this program slated for
early realization:
Museum Of History and Tech
nology, Smithsonian Institu-
ton, Constitution avenue, be.
tween Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets. NV, $50 million.
Temporary Buildings T and
q. occupying the site, now be-
ing vacated. Construction ex-
pected in latter 1858. 81
Federal Once Building No.
5, consisting Of three individual
buildings to be located along
Tenth street Mall in South
west redevelopment area: esti-
mated cost SIS, $4,000. Site
not yet acquired and project
awaiting better definition Of
Tenth street Mall.
Federal once Building No.
6: Fourth and Sixth, C street
and Maryland avenue S.W., es-
timated to cost $l6,2T5, 900.
Washington architectural firms,
Faulkner. Kingsbury and STEM
house and also Chatelain, Gau-
ger and Nolan, preparing work.
ing drawings, to be completed
latter part Of year.
At Lafayette Square
Federal once Building No.
Z: Estimated cost $35 million,
to be built on west side of
Lafayette square for agencies
Immediately connected with
White House. Blair House,
Blair-Lee House and Decatur
House to remain undisturbed.
Court Of Claims to be housed
in the area. Action by Congress
required.
Federal once Building No.
8: Immediately southwest of
Department Of Health, Educa-
ton and Welfare, Second and
Third and D streets S.W.. Esti-
mated cost $12,190.Oo0. to be
ready for bidding by 1859 or
1860. Will be a combined lab
oratory and Office building to
be used by the Food and Drug
Administration under the De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare.
! Federal office building No. O.: