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Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building

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Type
  
Government offices

Cost
  
$3,000,000

Floors
  
10

Phone
  
+1 404-562-0740

Completed
  
1933

Height
  
117 m

Opened
  
1933

Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building

Alternative names
  
United States Post Office, Federal Annex

Location
  
77 Forsyth Street SW Atlanta, Georgia

Owner
  
General Services Administration

Address
  
77 Forsyth St SW, Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

Similar
  
Peachtree Summit, Richard B Russell Federal B, Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal C, Terminal Station, Atlanta City Hall

The Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building (shorter form King Federal Building) is a building in Atlanta, Georgia. It was completed in 1933 in Modernist style for the United States Postal Service, and is now used as office accommodation by the United States Federal Government. It is included in the National Register of Historic Places.

The building was constructed by the Work Projects Administration, a New Deal agency, reflecting the expansion of Federal activity at that time. It was located adjacent to Terminal Station in Spring Street, and mail was transferred via tunnels from the railroad network, which then handled most long-distance mail. Later the building became a Federal office building, receiving its present name in 1988. The General Services Administration (GSA) undertook renovation in 2012, as far as possible in line with current "green building" criteria.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Building Wikipedia