Old Executive Office Building
building, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Also known as: State, War, and Navy Building
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design by Mullett
- In Alfred B. Mullett
The State, War, and Navy Building is Mullett’s principal achievement. A massive structure in the Second Empire style, it was the largest office building in the world when completed. Steep mansard roofs with projecting dormers crown the building; the elaborate facade—no area is unadorned—is covered with…
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Gilman, 1862–65) and the State, War, and Navy Department Building, Washington, D.C. (Alfred B. Mullett with Gilman, consultant, 1871–75), as well as many mansions and county seats designed by American architects, such as Richard Morris Hunt, who followed the training of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In England…
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