The New Executive Office Building (NEOB) is a

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, for the

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. The building is located at 725 17th Street NW, on the north side of

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. To the south is the

Eisenhower Executive Office Building The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB)—formerly known as the Old Executive Office Building (OEOB), and originally as the State, War, and Navy Building—is a U.S. government building situated just west of the White House in the U.S. ca ...

(EEOB), which is next to the

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―the EEOB before 1999 was known as the Old Executive Office Building. The other sides are bounded by 17th Street NW (west), H Street NW (north), and

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and Lafayette Park (east). Within the same

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are several buildings:

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, and

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in the south and the

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Headquarters and the

Decatur House Decatur House is a historic house museum at 748 Jackson Place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It is named after its first owner and occupant Stephen Decatur. The house (built, 1818) is located at the northwest corner of L ...

to the north. Known as Federal Office Building #7, it was built from 1965 to 1969 and is ten stories tall, double the height of the EEOB. According to Michael J. Bednar of the

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, "Four taller office buildings dating to earlier in the 20th century were demolished and replaced with next

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office builds. One has an open base to serve as an entry to the New Executive Office Building via

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. 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

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facade along 17th Street." The building was designed by

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John Carl Warnecke John Carl Warnecke (February 24, 1919 – April 17, 2010)Brown, "John Carl Warnecke Dies at 91, Designed Kennedy Gravesite," ''Washington Post,'' April 23, 2010.Grimes, "John Carl Warnecke, Architect to Kennedy, Dies at 91," ''New York Times,'' Ap ...

, who also designed 722 Jackson Place and the National Courts Building (717

Madison Place Madison Place is a one-block street located in northwest Washington, D.C., across from the White House. It forms the eastern border of Lafayette Square (the northernmost part of President's Park) between Pennsylvania Avenue and H Street NW. Buil ...

) on the opposite side of Lafayette Park during the same period. Warnecke sought to "harmonize he structureswith Lafayette Square's historic character and retained the domestic facades but joined the separate interiors." According to Shelley Lynne Tomkin in ''Inside OMB'', most

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employees work in the NEOB, while most OMB political appointees work across the street in the EEOB.Tomkin, Shelley Lynne. ''Inside OMB''. M.E. Sharpe: 1998, p. 11.

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