Buildings - Department History
Buildings of the Department of State
- Introduction
- Original Foreword
- The Period of the Continental Congress
- Carpenters’ Hall,Philadelphia
Sept. 5, 1774—Oct. 26, 1774 - Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall),Philadelphia
Intermittingly fromMay 10, 1775 toMarch 1, 1781 - Henry Fite’s House,Baltimore
Dec. 20, 1776—Feb. 27, 1777 - Court House,Lancaster
Sept. 27, 1777 - Court House,York
Sept. 30, 1777-June 27, 1778 - 13 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia
October 1781-June 1783 - Nassau Hall,Princeton, N.J.
June 30, 1783—Nov. 4, 1783 - State House,Annapolis
Nov. 26, 1783—Aug. 19, 1784 - French Arms Tavern,Trenton
Nov. 1—Dec. 24, 1784 - Fraunces Tavern,New York City
Jan. 11, 1785—Apr. 30, 1788 - First Location on Broadway,New York City
May 1—Oct. 2, 1788 - Second Location on Broadway,New York City
Oct. 2, 1788—Oct. 1790 - 307 Market Street, Philadelphia
October 1790—April 1793 - 287 Market Street, Philadelphia
April 1793—May 1794 - Sixth and Arch Streets,Philadelphia
May 1794—October 1796 - North Street, Philadelphia
Oct. 29, 1796—Aug. 31, 1797 - State House,Trenton
August—November 1797, 1798, 1799 - 13 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia
November 1797—May 1800 - Treasury Department Building,Washington
June—August 1800 - One of the “Six Buildings,”Washington
September 1800-May 1801 - Public Building West of theWhite House
May 1801—August 1814 - G Street Near Eighteenth Street
Sept. 1814—March 1816 - Rebuilt Public Building West of the White House
April 1816—August 1819 - Northeast Executive Building
August, September 1819-November 1866 - Washington City Orphan Asylum
November 1866-July 1875 - State, War, and Navy Building
July 1875-April 1947 - New State Building
April 1947—present - Extended, remodeled New State Building
- Appendix
Annex Buildings Occupied by the Department of State - Photo Credits
- Publication Information