| 1800 |
Construction of
first pair of office buildings designed by George Hadfield for State,
War, Navy, and Treasury departments on sites flanking White
House. |
| 1814 |
Executive office buildings
and White House partially burned by British troops in War of
1812. |
| 1869 |
Commission formed to
recommend a site for combined State, War, and Navy Building and to
procure designs and cost estimates. |
| 1870 |
Single new building on
site of old War and Navy Department
buildings proposed by Grant administration to house State, War, and Navy
Departments. Design by Alfred B. Mullett accepted. |
| 1871 |
Congress approves project
and initial appropriation; ground broken for construction of south wing
(State Department) |
| 1879 |
Individual telephone service
available for State and Navy Departments. |
| 1884 |
Conference establishing
International Dateline and Greenwich Mean Time held in State
Department. |
| 1888 |
West and center wings
completed. |
| 1893 |
First light bulb used in
building. |
| 1896 |
Theodore Roosevelt appointed
Assistant Secretary of the Navy under John D. Long. Holds office in Room
278, State, War, and Navy Building (SWN). |
| 1898 |
In room 208, SWN,
Secretary of State John Hay hands the Spanish Ambassador his passport
and credentials, thus signifying United States declaration of war
against Spain. |
| 1913 |
Gas removed and first
electric system installed throughout the building. |
| 1918 |
Navy Department vacates
SWN. |
| 1924 |
The "Round the World Flyers"
decorated by Secretary of War Dwight Davis. |
| 1930 |
SWN renamed the
Department of State Building. |
| 1939 |
Bureau of Budget moves in
from Treasury. |
| 1941 |
In room 208, Cordell Hull
confronts Japanese envoys with evidence of the bombing of Pearl
Harbor. |
| 1947 |
State Department vacates
building. |
| 1949 |
State Department Building
renamed Executive Office Building. |
| 1950 |
First presidential press
conference in Indian Treaty Room. |
| 1971 |
Executive Office Building
placed on the National Register of Historic Places. |
| 1972 |
Executive Office Building
registered as landmark property on the District of Columbia Inventory of
Historic Sites. |
| 1983 |
Historic Restoration of the
Old Executive Office Building to its appearance at time of completion
begins. |
