BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Sidney R. Yates Federal Bldg (Auditor's Bldg) (201 14th St SW)

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1. YATES_150405_01.JPG: Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail: Escape Across the Potomac As war with Britain wore on, some U.S. military leaders believed the nation's capital, with its inland location and military defenses, was safe. So Washingtonians were cruelly surprised when the British invaded on August 24, 1814. As the enemy burned some of the public buildings, people gathered what they could carry and fled. Many crossed the Potomac River to Virginia on the Long Bridge, a wooden drawbridge on the site of today's 14th Street Bridge. A British engraving dated October 14, 1814, shows the destruction of Long Bridge (letter H) among other key events. Bridge on Fire: The next day, the British captured this end of Long Bridge while the Americans held the Virginia side. After a fierce thunderstorm crippled the drawbridge mechanism, each army set its end of the bridge on fire, reducing the Potomac crossings to either the Georgetown ferry or Chain Bridge, five miles upstream. A historical illustrator later imagined the British watching the Capitol burn. "The streets were... crowded with soldiers and senators, men, women, and children, horses, carriages, and carts... all hastening toward a wooden bridge which crosses the Potomac. The confusion... was terrible, and the crowd upon the bridge was such as to endanger its giving way." -- Lt. George Robert Gleig, British soldier
2. YATES_150405_08.JPG: A historical illustrator later imagined the British watching the Capitol burn.
3. YATES_150405_11.JPG: A British engraving dated October 14, 1814, shows the destruction of Long Bridge (letter H) among other key events.
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Wikipedia Description: Sidney R. Yates Federal Building
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The Sidney R. Yates Federal Building, historically known as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and later the Auditor's Building Complex, is a large historic federal building located on the National Mall and built between 1878-1880 that has housed multiple federal government offices. It is an L-shaped building of red and black brick construction in the Romanesque style and was designed by the office of James G. Hill, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. The brick was provided by the Peerless Brick Company of Philadelphia. The builder was John Fraser, Superintendent of Construction for the Treasury, and the bricklayers were Bitting & Davidson.

The building was originally designed and constructed for the United States Department of the Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). The Bureau was founded in 1862 to allow the federal government to produce its own official documents; private companies having done so prior to this. The Bureau's machinery and offices were originally located in the Treasury Building, but eventually more space was required. In 1878, land was purchased from philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran and an Act of Congress on June 28 of that year authorized commencement of construction. The building was completed in 1880. Three additions were later constructed in 1891, 1895 and 1900. The Bureau moved to a larger building at 14th & C Streets in 1914.

Following the Bureau's move, the building was used by a number of government agencies, but primarily housed auditors from the Departments of Navy, Treasury, and State, and became known as the "Auditors' Complex". Engravers from the BEP also later used space on the west of the building as it provided excellent natural light for their work. By the 1960s, the building had become underutilized and in need of major renovation. It was slated for demolition in 1966, but was postponed due to lack of funding.

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