| Board Interiors and Exteriors
The offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the governing body of the nation's central bank, occupy three buildings:
- The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building, on
Constitution Avenue between 20th and 21st Streets, NW,
designed by Paul Phillipe Cret and completed in 1937;
- The William McChesney Martin, Jr., Federal Reserve Board
Building, on the north side of the Eccles Building, on C Street,
NW, designed by H2L2 (Harbeson Hough Livingston and
Larson), the successor firm to that of Paul Cret, and completed in
1974;
- 1709 New York Avenue, NW, located a few blocks northeast of
the Eccles-Martin complex, designed by Vlastimil Koubek, erected
as a commercial office building in 1972, and purchased by the
Board in 2001.
Marriner S. Eccles served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System from November 15, 1934, through April 14,
1948. The Board's Constitution Avenue building was dedicated by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt on October 20, 1937, and named in
honor of Eccles by an act of Congress on October 15, 1982.
William McChesney Martin, Jr., was Chairman of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System from April 2, 1951, through January 31,
1970. The building named by the Board in his honor was dedicated on
November 19, 1974.
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