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Additionally, from The WPA Guide to Washington D.C. (1942):
Building 3 is an eight-story red brick building adjoining Building 1 on the north. It was completed and occupied in 1940, and though its achitectural lines are in keeping with the oldest building, the lines run more to verticals and horizontals than to the arches and colonnades of an earlier architectural period.