The New Executive Office Building, viewed from across 17th Street NW.The New Executive Office Building shown in an aerial photograph of the White House Complex and surrounding area. The NEOB is the brick building in the extreme upper left-hand corner of the photo. The White House is in the center.
Known as Federal Office Building #7, it was built from 1965[1] to 1969 and is ten stories tall, double the height of the EEOB. According to Michael J. Bednar of the University of Virginia School of Architecture, "Four taller office buildings dating to earlier in the 20th century were demolished and replaced with new rowhouse office buildings. One has an open base to serve as an entry to the New Executive Office Building via a courtyard. The historic structures were preserved and rehabilitated for smaller federal agencies. The New Executive Office Building has an offset H-shaped plan with a long blank brick facade along Seventeenth Street."[2]
The building was designed by architectJohn Carl Warnecke, who also designed 722 Jackson Place and the National Courts Building (717 Madison Place) on the opposite side of Lafayette Park during the same period. Warnecke sought to "harmonize [the structures] with Lafayette Square's historic character and retained the domestic facades but joined the separate interiors."[3]
According to Shelley Lynne Tomkin in Inside OMB, most Office of Management and Budgetcivil service employees work in the NEOB, while most OMB political appointees work across the street in the EEOB.[4]
