Facilities includes a secretariat, exhibition space, 19 corporate office suites, and a high-tech business event center.

Previously the embassy was housed in rented space, first at Watergate 600, and later at 1501 M Street N.W.

[2] The building was inaugurated on October 23, 2006, by King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

Also present at the inauguration were Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt and Ambassador of Sweden to the United States Gunnar Lund.

[2] Gert Wingårdh received the Swedish national architecture award—the Kasper Salin Prize—for House of Sweden in 2007.