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Since 2009, it has also been the meeting location for the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The Prettyman Courthouse is located on Constitution Avenue in the Judiciary Square neighborhood of Washington, across from the East Building of the National Gallery of Art. It opened in 1952 and was expanded with an annex in 2005.
717 Madison Place NW Fed. Cir. (nationwide) Fed. Claims (nationwide) 1967 present Named after Court of Appeals judge Howard Thomas Markey. Formerly known as the National Courts Building. U.S. Tax Court Bldg: 400 Second Street NW U.S. Tax Court (nationwide) 1972 present E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse: 333 Constitution Avenue NW D.D.C. D.C ...
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.
An 1818 map of Washington, D.C., showing Tiber Creek An 1850 map of Washington, D.C., showing the completed (and disused) Washington City Canal. When the District of Columbia was founded in 1790, the Potomac River was much wider than it currently is, and a major tidal estuary known as Tiber Creek flowed roughly from 6th Street NW to the shore of the river just south of the White House.
The Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building houses the main offices of the Board of Governors of the United States' Federal Reserve System. It is located at the intersection of 20th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. The building, designed in the Stripped Classicism style, was designed by Paul Philippe Cret and ...
The interior is arranged around a central rotunda, accompanied by a small museum and library, now board room and reception space. Offices are located to the rear, while the basement was planned as laboratory, service and storage space. The rotunda is capped by a low dome resting on pendentives and lighted by an oculus. The flanking museum and ...
It is located at 717 Madison Place NW, east of Lafayette Square and north of the White House, and borders the Freedman's Bank Building to the south, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House at 721 Madison Place NW, the former Cosmos Club building at 725 Madison Place NW, and the Cutts-Madison House at 1520 H Street NW.
The District of Columbia Board of Elections (BOE) is the independent agency of the District government responsible for the administration of elections, ballot access and voter registration. The BOE consists of three active board members, an executive director, a general counsel and a number of support staff who run the day-to-day operations of ...