Latvia: 1715 Twenty-second Street. Lithuania: 2622 Sixteenth Street. Mexico: 2829 Sixteenth Street. Netherlands: 1470 Euclid Street. Nicaragua: 1521 New Hampshire Avenue. Norway: 3401 Massachusetts Avenue. Panama: 1536 Eighteenth Street. Paraguay: Wardman Park Hotel. Peru: 1300 Sixteenth Street. Poland: 2640 Sixteenth Street. Portugal: Wardman Park Hotel. Rumania: 1601 Twenty-third Street. Siam: 2300 Kalorama Road. Spain: 2801 Sixteenth Street. Sweden: 2247 R Street. Switzerland: 2419 Massachusetts Avenue. Turkey: 1606 Twenty-third Street. Union of South Africa: 3101 Massachusetts Avenue. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: 1125 Sixteenth Street. Uruguay: 1010 Vermont Avenue. Venezuela: 2400 Sixteenth Street. Yugoslavia: 1520 Sixteenth Street. CHAPTER XXII THE PUBLIC-BUILDINGS PROGRAM NEW BUILDINGS NECESSARY As a result of the World War, Government departments in Washington became overcrowded, and from 30,000 to 40,000 employees were housed in temporary buildings. This congested situation made a public-building program one of urgent need. For 40 years no real department building had been erected in Washington. The Department of Agriculture was in 47 rented buildings. The Department of War and the Department of the Navy were housed in many temporary war buildings. [Illustration: PLAN OF 1910 FOR DEVELOPING SOUTH SIDE OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE] PLANS AS DEVELOPED In 1910 plans were authorized for three department buildings--Justice, Commerce and Labor, and State--to be built along Fifteenth Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and B Street NW., now Constitution Avenue, and the land in this locality was bought by the Government, but the building project was deferred. Again, in 1913, Congress took up the question of a public-building program, and in 1917 a comprehensive survey was made by the Public Buildings Commission of the needs of the Government for additional buildings. At that time the area south of Pennsylvania Avenue along Fifteenth Street to Constitution Avenue, which in 1910 was proposed for three buildings, was designated for two buildings. Then came the World War, during which the many temporary war buildings were erected. President Coolidge in his message to Congress on December 9, 1925, called attention to the great need for public buildings and asked for an annual appropriation of $10,000,000. He said: [Illustration: VIEW OF THE MALL FROM THE CAPITOL DOME, LOOKING WEST] [Illustration: VIEW OF THE MALL FROM THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, LOOKING EAST]