John F. Kennedy Federal Building | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Sixties Modern |
Address | 15 Sudbury Street, Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Coordinates | 42°21′41″N 71°03′34″W / 42.36144°N 71.05936°W |
Named for | John F. Kennedy |
Year(s) built | 1963-1966 |
Opened | 1966 |
Height | 387 feet (118 m) |
Technical details | |
Material | Steel, reinforced concrete, glass |
Floor count | 26 floors each; 4 floor corridor |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Walter Gropius, The Architects Collaborative, Samuel Glaser |
Structural engineer | LeMessurier Consultants |
John F. Kennedy Federal Building | |
NRHP reference No. | SG100007130 |
Added to NRHP | November 15, 2021 |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Building is a United States federal government office building located in the Government Center area of Boston, Massachusetts, adjacent to City Hall Plaza and diagonally across from Boston City Hall. An example of 1960s modern architecture, and designed by Walter Gropius and The Architects Collaborative with Samuel Glaser, it is a complex that consists of two offset 26-floor towers that sit on-axis to each other and a low rise building of four floors that connects to the two towers through an enclosed glass corridor.[1] The two towers stand at a height of 387 feet (118 m).[2] The complex was built in 1963-1966.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.[3]
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