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George Bush Center for Intelligence (CIA Headquarters)

George Bush Center for Intelligence (CIA Headquarters)

Harrison & Abramovitz & Smith, Hinchman & Grylls

Photo: Carol M. Highsmith · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Langley, Virginia, United States
Client / Owner
Central Intelligence Agency
Year
Completed 1961
Access
Private
Style
—

The George Bush Center for Intelligence, the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, has an Original Headquarters Building by Harrison & Abramovitz and a New Headquarters Building by Smith, Hinchman and Grylls Associates. The infobox gives a 1957 start, but the text says ground broke on November 3, 1959. The original building opened in 1961, in March per the text and September per the infobox. The new building ran from 1984 to 1991. The article gives no style.

Total floor area is 2.5 million square feet, with 1.4 million in the original building, on 258 acres. A marble wall there carries an engraved Biblical quotation. The grounds hold the Kryptos sculpture.

Congress named it for George H. W. Bush in 1999. Access needs credentials or an appointment, and the museum is not open to the public. The article gives no hours.

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