United States Embassy in Greece
The embassy's institutional remit is diplomacy and relations between Greece and the United States. The United States Embassy in Greece is the U.S. diplomatic embassy in Athens, Greece's capital.
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In September 2018, the embassy began a multi-year renovation intended to add office space and upgrade electrical and mechanical systems. The passage describes those improvements as future outcomes and does not establish their completion.
Verified · 2018-09The embassy's chancery building in Athens was constructed between 1959 and 1961. Walter Gropius designed it with consulting architect Pericles A. Sakellarios, using a simple Bauhaus form inspired by the Parthenon's architecture.
Verified · 1961The United States ambassador to Greece is the head of the U.S. diplomatic mission to Greece.
VerifiedThe embassy in Athens closed on July 14, 1941, after Germany occupied Greece. The United States maintained diplomatic relations with Greece's government in exile in London during 1941–43 and Cairo during 1943–44; Ambassador MacVeagh reopened the embassy on October 27, 1944.
Verified · 1944-10-27A 2007 expansion added an office building and supporting facilities, including a parking garage, compound entrances and Marine Corps Security Guard quarters. The office building enabled the embassy to bring employees who had worked in leased space onto the compound.
Verified · 2007The U.S. legation to Greece was raised to embassy status on September 29, 1942. The change promoted Minister Biddle to ambassadorial rank and required a new appointment, which President Roosevelt made and the Senate confirmed.
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