Joseph Henry Building

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Building

Title: Joseph Henry Building

Address: Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Square and lot, bordering streets: Square 75 (I, Pennsylvania Avenue, 21st, 22nd Streets)

Architect: Unknown

Date of construction: 1967; extension constructed 1981-82

Original owner: Unknown

Description: The building was built by the Fuller Construction Company and completed in 1967. It was named for Joseph Henry, head of the Smithsonian in the 19th century.

Historic designation: None

Document Information

Images: 0
Photographic Credit: n/a
Author or Source: Reconnaissance-Level Architectural Survey Of Properties In Foggy Bottom, Washington, D.C., 1999
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: December 21, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist

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