US Pension Bureau Building, Washington, D.C.

Collection: Washington, D. C. and region

Title

US Pension Bureau Building, Washington, D.C.

Subject

United States. Pension Bureau

Description

In Judiciary Square, near the corner of Fifth and F Streets, N. W., Washington, D. C., stands an imposing brick structure, in which the Pension Bureau of the United States is housed .

Additional information: This building, completed in 1887, served as the Pension Building, housing the United States Pension Bureau until 1926. It is now the National Building Museum, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. On July 21, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed an executive order merging the Bureau of Pensions, Veterans' Bureau, and Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers into a single Veterans Administration. This ended the Bureau of Pensions' existence as a federal agency.

Creator

Ingersoll, T. W. (Truman Ward)

Source

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Publisher

Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA

Date

1898

Rights

No Copyright – United States

Format

image/jpeg

Language

English

Type

Stereographs

Identifier

293