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.ÿþprefaceFew architectural organizations have enjoyed the scope and durabil-ity of the Office of the Supervising Architect of the U.S.TreasuryDepartment.Between the mid-nineteenth century and the end of the1930s, the Office designed numerous federal government buildingsthat were located in the nation s capital city, Washington, D.C., andin thousands of communities nationwide.Despite its great longevity,the Office was as artistically vigorous and prolific near the end of itsexistence in the late 1930s as it was at its inception in the early 1850s.The Office developed within the U.S.Treasury Department be-cause that agency collected the customs duties and other fees, and itseemed natural that the same department should handle the designof the edifices that housed its functions.As the federal government srole evolved, the addition of other federal government agency andbureau activities to these buildings seemed a logical step.By the endof the Depression era, when federal government responsibilitieshad increased markedly, the Office was moved out of the TreasuryDepartment and into a public works agency.The Office took root in a period when the architectural professionwas only barely defined.The Office employed government architectswho undertook the design of federal government buildings and werecompensated with civil service salaries.The Office grew to promi-nence as private architects became organized into a powerful lobby- [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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