[2] The building was designed by Charles Zeller Klauder and the Office of the Supervising Architect under Louis A. Simon, in the Stripped Classical style in 1939.

[2] Construction was completed in 1940, but Social Security did not become the building's first occupant.

[2] On April 28, 1988, the building was renamed the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in honor of the Social Security Board's first professional employee and the former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.

[3] On July 6, 2007, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Voice of America and the U.S. Agency for Global Media are the building's principal occupants.