Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building
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Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building
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The Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in August 2006.
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| Location | 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. |
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| Coordinates | 38°53′35.52″N 77°1′30″W / 38.8932000°N 77.02500°WCoordinates: 38°53′35.52″N 77°1′30″W / 38.8932000°N 77.02500°W |
| Built | 1935 |
| Architect | Milton Bennett Medary; Charles L. Borie, Jr.; Clarence C. Zantzinger. |
| Architectural style | Classical Revival |
| Part of | Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site (#66000865) |
Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building is the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the United States Department of Justice.
The building is located at 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on a trapezoidal lot on the block bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue to the north, Constitution Avenue to the south, 9th Street to the east, and 10th Street NW to the west, in the Federal Triangle. It is located west of the National Archives Building, east of the Internal Revenue Service Building, north of the National Mall, and south of the J. Edgar Hoover Building. The building is owned by the General Services Administration. It comprises seven floors and 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m2). It houses Department of Justice offices, including the office of the United States Attorney General. Completed in 1935, it was renamed after the 64th Attorney General of the United States, Robert F. Kennedy, in 2001.
The Office of the Attorney General was created by the 1st United States Congress by the Judiciary Act of 1789. In 1792, the Congress made the Attorney General a Cabinet-level post. In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating the Department of Justice. Still, there was not yet a permanent home for either the Attorney General or the Justice Department, and each had occupied a succession of temporary spaces in federal government buildings and privately owned office buildings. While plans to provide the Department with its own building were developed as early as 1910, it was not until the late 1920s that significant progress was made toward this goal.
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