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Congressional Office Buildings
 
A map of the U.S. Capitol complex and an aerial photograph [50k] showing the locations of the congressional office buildings are available. Although several of these buildings were named long after their construction and occupancy, their present names are used here.
U.S. House of Representatives
Cannon Building
 
Location: Southeast of the Capitol on a site bounded by Independence Avenue, First Street, New Jersey Avenue, and C Street, S.E.
 
Date Occupied: January 1908
Area: 826,465 square feet
Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
Associate Architects: John Carrère and
Thomas Hastings
 
Longworth House Office Building
 
Location: South of the Capitol on a site bounded by Independence Avenue, New Jersey Avenue, South Capitol Street, and C Street, S.E.
 
Date Occupied: April 1933
Area: 702,608 square feet
Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
Associate Architects: Allied Architects 
Rayburn House Office Building
 
Location: Southwest of the Capitol on a site bounded by Independence Avenue, South Capitol Street, First Street, and C Street, S.W.
 
Date Occupied: February 1965
Area: 2,395,914 square feet
Architect of the Capitol: J. George Stewart
Associate Architects: John Harbeson, William Hough, William Livingston, and Roy Larson
Ford House Office Building

Ford House Office Building

Location: Southwest of the Capitol on a site bounded by Second Street, D Street, Third Street and Virginia Ave, S.W.

 
Date Occupied: 1975
Area: 594,966 square feet
Built: 1939 as the first General Federal Office Building in Washington.
U.S. Senate
Russell Senate Office Building
 
Location: Northeast of the Capitol on a site bounded by Constitution Avenue, First Street, Delaware Avenue, and C Street, N.E.
 
Date Occupied: March 1909
Area: 698,921 square feet
Architect of the Capitol: Elliott Woods
Associate Architects: John Carrère and Thomas Hastings
Dirksen Senate Office Building
 
Location: Northeast of the Capitol, adjoining the Hart Senate Office Building on a site bounded by Constitution Avenue, Second Street, First Street, and C Street, N.E.
 
Date Occupied: October 1958
Area: 750,520 square feet
Architect of the Capitol: David Lynn
Associate Architects: Otto Eggers and Daniel Higgins
Hart Senate Office Building
 
Location: Northeast of the Capitol, adjoining the Dirksen Senate Office Building on a site bounded by Constitution Avenue, Second Street, First Street, and C Street, N.E.
 
Date Occupied: November 1982
Area: 1,271,030 square feet
Architect of the Capitol: George M. White
Associate Architects: J. Carl Warnecke and A. Eugene Kohn
 
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