Robert C. Weaver Federal Building

office building in Washington, D.C., serving as the headquarters of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Summary

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building is an office building[1]. It draws 301 Wikipedia views per month (office building category, ranking #65 of 354).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Washington, D.C.[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Architect: Marcel Breuer[5]
  • Movement: brutalist architecture[6]
  • Named after: Robert C. Weaver[7]
  • Architectural style: brutalist architecture[8], expressionist architecture[9]
  • Made from material: concrete[10], precast concrete[11]
  • Location: Southwest[12]
  • Postal code: 20410[13]
  • Commons category: Robert C. Weaver Federal Building[14]
  • Occupant: United States Department of Housing and Urban Development[15]
  • Inception: September 9, 1968[16]
  • Located on street: 7th Street[17]
  • Significant event: foundation stone laying ceremony[18]
  • Official website: https://www.hud.gov[19], https://www.hud.gov/about/hqbuilding[20]
  • Described at URL: https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/historic-preservation/explore-historic-buildings/find-a-building/all-historic-buildings/robert-c-weaver-federal-building-washington-dc[21]
  • Floors above ground: 10[22]
  • Heritage designation: National Register of Historic Places listed place[23], District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites[24]
  • Date of official opening: September 9, 1968[25]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Architourist Guide[26]
  • Street address: 451 7th St SW, Washington, DC 20410[27]
  • Category for the interior of the item: Category:Interior of the Robert C. Weaver Federal Building[28]

Why It Matters

Robert C. Weaver Federal Building is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . DC Historic Sites. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . DC Historic Sites. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . hud.gov. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . SAH Archipedia. Retrieved . sah-archipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . gsa.gov. Retrieved . gsa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . DC Historic Sites. Retrieved . sah-archipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . SAH Archipedia. Retrieved . sah-archipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . hud.gov. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . gsa.gov. Retrieved . gsa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . DC Historic Sites. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . hud.gov. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . SkyscraperPage. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . National Register Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . DC Historic Sites. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . hud.gov. Retrieved . hud.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . SkyscraperPage. Retrieved . gsa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Arch2bot bot · 2026-10-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  2. 7w ago · Abductive · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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  3. 16w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Worldcat entities id → E39QH7JmpybFm4qfvwbqvCDGgg
    Architectural style → brutalist architecture, expressionist architecture
    Located on street → 7th Street
    Library of congress authority id → sh2003009131
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