The Pentagon

The Pentagon - the name of the U.S. Department of Defense building, which has the shape of a regular pentagon. Located in Virginia near Washington (Mailing address: Arlington, Virginia 22202, USA).
The largest office building in the world. Construction of the Pentagon, which houses the U.S. Department of Defense, was completed in January 1943. The length of each of the five sides of the building is 281 m, the perimeter - about 1405 m, the total length of the corridor - 28 km and the total area of ​​five storeys - 604 000 m ². The building has five above-ground and two underground floors, the height of the aerial part - 23.5 m [1]. In the building there are windows 7754. The building has about 26,000 people.

Pentagon building was designed by American architect George Bergstrom (1876-1955), and its construction was done by John McShane Construction Company of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The project was commissioned by the army command. At the request of General Somervell Brehona construction of the building was to be carried out rapidly, it should have already completed January 15, 1943 after the start of construction work September 11, 1941 supervised the construction of the army led the Colonel (c September 17, 1942 - General) Construction Army Corps of U.S. Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project Technical Manager.



Interesting Facts

Type: Main
Coordinates: 38 ° 52'15 .56 "N 77 ° 3'21 .46" W
Built: Construction start: September 11, 1941, ending January 15, 1943
Height: five floors above ground and two underground
Who is building: the Ministry of Defense of the United States of America
The building has a courtyard, which houses a grocery store, service department employees, and grow mostly oak trees. According to local legend, during the Cold War, Soviet military analysts have assumed that by this little building is a bunker: spy satellites recorded that it is constantly coming and going a lot of people. In this connection, supposedly, right at the grocery store were targeted Soviet nuclear missiles. Because of this, he received the ominous name «Ground Zero».
In the lobby of the building there are many shops, offices, banks and other organizations focused on service employees of the Ministry. Next to each other are floral, confectionery and jewelery shops. According to folklore, their arrangement meets the needs of the military, ever lingering on the job. Their wives are dissatisfied with the lack of systematic spouses at home, so women have to placate: flowers, candy, and in severe cases - jewelery.
At the Pentagon, twice as many toilets than needed in fact. The Pentagon was built in the 40s of the 20th century, when Virginia was still a law according to which the toilets for whites and blacks had to be separated. True, the labels "for whites" and "for blacks" hung up and have not been through the intervention of President Roosevelt ^ 2.