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Proposed treatment of niche and side wall alcoves, Department of State Building, Washington D.C. – Historic Photo Reproduction

Proposed treatment of niche and side wall alcoves, Department of State Building, Washington D.C. — historic image
Proposed treatment of niche and side wall alcoves, Department of State Building, Washington D.C.. Historic image from the Washington Landmarks collection.

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A proposal for decorating the niches and side-wall alcoves of the Department of State Building, a government office structure in Washington, D.C., is a close look at how interior spaces were planned for ornament. The building, now called the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, was designed by Alfred B. Mullett in the French Second Empire style and constructed beside the White House from the early 1870s until 1888. Drawings like this show how architects and officials intended to finish the building's interiors, and they reflect the late nineteenth-century taste for elaborate decoration in federal buildings meant to convey permanence and authority.

Original scan1,464 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217733

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