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Contents</h2> </div> <ul class="hsg-list-group"> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/intro" class="" id="toc-intro">Introduction</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/foreword" class="" id="toc-foreword">Original Foreword</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section1" class="" id="toc-section1">The Period of the Continental Congress</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section2" class="" id="toc-section2">Carpenters’ Hall, <span class="tei-placeName">Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 5, 1774</span>—<span class="tei-date">Oct. 26, 1774</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section3" class="" id="toc-section3">Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), <span class="tei-placeName">Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> Intermittingly from <span class="tei-date">May 10, 1775</span> to <span class="tei-date">March 1, 1781</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section4" class="" id="toc-section4"> <span class="tei-persName">Henry Fite</span>’s House, <span class="tei-placeName">Baltimore</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Dec. 20, 1776</span>—<span class="tei-date">Feb. 27, 1777</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section5" class="" id="toc-section5">Court House, <span class="tei-placeName">Lancaster</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 27, 1777</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section6" class="" id="toc-section6">Court House, <span class="tei-placeName">York</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 30, 1777</span>-<span class="tei-date">June 27, 1778</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section7" class="" id="toc-section7"> <span class="tei-placeName">13 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">October 1781</span>-<span class="tei-date">June 1783</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section8" class="" id="toc-section8">Nassau Hall, <span class="tei-placeName">Princeton, N.J.</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">June 30, 1783</span>—<span class="tei-date">Nov. 4, 1783</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section9" class="" id="toc-section9">State House, <span class="tei-placeName">Annapolis</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Nov. 26, 1783</span>—<span class="tei-date">Aug. 19, 1784</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section10" class="" id="toc-section10">French Arms Tavern, <span class="tei-placeName">Trenton</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Nov. 1</span>—<span class="tei-date">Dec. 24, 1784</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section11" class="" id="toc-section11">Fraunces Tavern, <span class="tei-placeName">New York City</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Jan. 11, 1785</span>—<span class="tei-date">Apr. 30, 1788</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section12" class="" id="toc-section12">First Location on Broadway, <span class="tei-placeName">New York City</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">May 1</span>—<span class="tei-date">Oct. 2, 1788</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section13" class="" id="toc-section13">Second Location on Broadway, <span class="tei-placeName">New York City</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Oct. 2, 1788</span>—<span class="tei-date">Oct. 1790</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section14" class="" id="toc-section14"> <span class="tei-placeName">307 Market Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">October 1790</span>—<span class="tei-date">April 1793</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section15" class="" id="toc-section15"> <span class="tei-placeName">287 Market Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">April 1793</span>—<span class="tei-date">May 1794</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section16" class="" id="toc-section16">Sixth and Arch Streets, <span class="tei-placeName">Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">May 1794</span>—<span class="tei-date">October 1796</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section17" class="" id="toc-section17"> <span class="tei-placeName">North Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Oct. 29, 1796</span>—<span class="tei-date">Aug. 31, 1797</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section18" class="" id="toc-section18">State House, <span class="tei-placeName">Trenton</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">August</span>—<span class="tei-date">November 1797, 1798, 1799</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section19" class="" id="toc-section19"> <span class="tei-placeName">13 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">November 1797</span>—<span class="tei-date">May 1800</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section20" class="" id="toc-section20">Treasury Department Building, <span class="tei-placeName">Washington</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">June</span>—<span class="tei-date">August 1800</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section21" class="" id="toc-section21">One of the “Six Buildings,” <span class="tei-placeName">Washington</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">September 1800</span>-<span class="tei-date">May 1801</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section22" class="" id="toc-section22">Public Building West of the <span class="tei-placeName">White House</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">May 1801</span>—<span class="tei-date">August 1814</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section23" class="" id="toc-section23"> <span class="tei-placeName">G Street Near Eighteenth Street</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 1814</span>—<span class="tei-date">March 1816</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section24" class="" id="toc-section24"> <span class="tei-placeName">Rebuilt Public Building West of the White House</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">April 1816</span>—<span class="tei-date">August 1819</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section25" class="" id="toc-section25"> <span class="tei-placeName">Northeast Executive Building</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">August, September 1819</span>-<span class="tei-date">November 1866</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section26" class="" id="toc-section26"> <span class="tei-placeName">Washington City Orphan Asylum</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">November 1866</span>-<span class="tei-date">July 1875</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section27" class="" id="toc-section27"> <span class="tei-placeName">State, War, and Navy Building</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">July 1875</span>-<span class="tei-date">April 1947</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section28" class="" id="toc-section28"> <span class="tei-placeName">New State Building</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">April 1947</span>—present</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section29" class="" id="toc-section29">Extended, remodeled New State Building</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section30" class="" id="toc-section30">Appendix<br class="tei-lb"> Annex Buildings Occupied by the Department of State</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section31" class="" id="toc-section31">Photo Credits</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section32" class="highlight" 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