Go to Main Exhibits Page Return to the Weights and Measures Home PageReturn to The Founding of the National Bureau of Standards in 1901 Room
Photograph of the South Building
 Return to Museum Home Page

Photograph of the South Building

 NIST Historical Collection
In 1901, the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) moved from its home in the Coast and Geodetic Survey Building on New Jersey Avenue in the District of Columbia to the Butler Building next door. This was a temporary location for OWM [renamed the Weights and Measures Section] while it waited for its new uptown quarters on the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) campus to be built. The South Building was complete in 1904, and the NBS Weights and Measures Section occupied a laboratory on the ground floor.

 NIST Historical Collection

Photograph of Coast and Geodetic Survey Building