Eccles Building
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The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building houses the main offices of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Federal Reserve Board) in Washington, D.C. The building was designed by Paul Phillippe Cret and finished in 1937. President Roosevelt dedicated the building on October 20, 1937.
The building was named after Marriner S. Eccles, a former Chairman of the Federal Reserve by an act of Congress on October 15, 1982. It is considered one of the most significant buildings in the United States.
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