The Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building (shorter form King Federal Building) is a building in
Atlanta, Georgia. It was completed in 1933 in
classical style for the
United States Postal Service, and is now used as office accommodation by the
United States Federal Government. It is included in the
National Register of Historic Places.
[ Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building, Atlanta, GA]
GSA (US General Services Administration).
The building was constructed by the
Work Projects Administration, a
New Deal agency
The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States an ...
, reflecting the expansion of Federal activity at that time. It was located adjacent to
Terminal Station in Spring Street, and mail was transferred via tunnels from the railroad network, which then handled most long-distance mail.
Later the building became a Federal office building, receiving its present name in 1988. The
General Services Administration (GSA) undertook renovation in 2012, as far as possible in line with current "
green building" criteria.
[Jim Nicolow and Susan Turner]
"GSA Rehabilitates Historic King Federal Building in Atlanta"
FacilitiesNet, October 2012, TradePress.
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Government buildings completed in 1933
Federal courthouses in the United States
Office buildings in Atlanta
National Register of Historic Places in Atlanta
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