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The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a low-rise office building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Planning for the building began in 1962, and a site was formally selected in January 1963.
- March 1965
- 11 (E Street NW side), 8 (Pennsylvania Avenue NW side)
- 2,800,876 square feet (260,209.9 m²)
- Brutalist
The Hoover Legacy, 40 Years After: Part 5. J. Edgar Hoover led the FBI for nearly a half-century, from 1924 until 1972. Under Director Hoover, the Bureau grew in responsibility and...
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Jun 18, 2010 · J. Edgar Hoover was director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for 48 years, reshaping that organization from a small, relatively weak arm of the federal government’s...
Feb 15, 2018 · The J. Edgar Hoover Building occupies two combined city blocks and the right-of-way of the 900 block of D Street in Northwest, Washington, DC. The site is bounded on the south by Pennsylvania Avenue, 10th Street on the west, Ninth Street on the east, and E Street on the north.
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1924 to 1972, is remembered for transforming the “Bureau” into a professional and effective investigative police force but also for using its power against those seen as political subversives. In an article on the FBI first.
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Apr 30, 2024 · J. Edgar Hoover, U.S. public official who, as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, built that agency into a highly effective, if occasionally controversial, arm of federal law enforcement. Learn more about Hoover in this article.
Nov 22, 2022 · November 22, 2022. Five decades after his death, J. Edgar Hoover still haunts the FBI. His nearly 48-year reign as its director, from 1924 to 1972, has come to symbolize the dangers of a...
