The National Archives at College Park

The National Archives and Records Administration completed construction of a new national archives facility, the National Archives at College Park, in 1993. Informally known as Archives II, the 1.8 million square foot facility was designed as a joint venture of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK) and Ellerbe Becket and constructed by the George Hyman Construction Company. The largest archives facility in the world. Archives II includes almost 700,000 square feet of records storage space, a five-level research room center, conservation and special media laboratories, processing and administrative offices, an auditorium, conference and training rooms, a cafeteria, a daycare center, and an exercise facility.