Embassy of the United States, Amman

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Embassy of the United States, Amman
American Embassy in Amman.jpg
The embassy in 2006
AddressAl-Umawyeen Street, Amman
Coordinates 31°56′44″N35°52′49″E / 31.945437°N 35.880187°E / 31.945437; 35.880187
OpenedJuly 4, 1992 (1992-07-04) [1] (current building)
Ambassador Yael Lempert
Website jo.usembassy.gov

The Embassy of the United States in Amman is the diplomatic mission of the United States to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It is located on Al-Umawyeen Street in Amman, the capital of Jordan. [2]

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The current ambassador is Yael Lempert, serving since September 2023. [3]

History

Background

The United States established bilateral relations with Jordan on February 18, 1949. [4] The first envoy was Wells Stabler, who served as chargé d'affaires ad interim until Gerald A. Drew was appointed as permanent Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary on February 2, 1950. [5] Following the raising of the Legation Amman, the original diplomatic office, to embassy status in 1952, subsequent envoys have held the title of Ambassador.

Chancery

In 1954, American architect Paul Rudolph was commissioned by the Department of State to design a new embassy in Amman. [6] He worked on the design of the new embassy until 1956, but it was ultimately never built. [7]

The current chancery began construction in 1988, at a cost of $50 million, and was opened on July 4, 1992, Independence Day in the United States. [1] After the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in 1983, retired Admiral Bobby Ray Inman requested the building be reinforced and heavily guarded. Due to this, it became known as Fort Apache among the diplomats there. [1]

In 2020, the architecture magazine ENR gave an ENR award of merit to the architects, designers and engineers who worked on the new office annex (NOX), on the renovated chancery and on other upgrades to the embassy. [8]

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References

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    2. ↑ "Embassy". U.S. Embassy in Jordan. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
    3. ↑ Deutch, Gabby (March 18, 2024). "Meet Yael Lempert, the Jewish-American ambassador in Amman". Jewish Insider . Retrieved May 1, 2024.
    4. ↑ Blinken, Antony (February 17, 2024). "75 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan". United States Department of State . Retrieved May 1, 2024.
    5. ↑ "Gerald Augustin Drew". Office of the Historian. United States Department of State . Retrieved May 1, 2024.
    6. ↑ Bruegmann, Robert (February 28, 1986) [1993]. "Interview with Paul Rudolph / interviewed by Robert Bruegmann, compiled under the auspices of the Chicago Architects Oral History Project, the Ernest R. Graham Study Center for Architectural Drawings, Department of Architecture, the Art Institute of Chicago". Art Institute of Chicago .
    7. ↑ Rohan, Timothy M. "Alternatives to the International Style: Three Projects by Paul Rudolph from the 1950s". Centre Canadien d’Architecture (in French). Retrieved May 6, 2024.
    8. ↑ "Award of Merit, Government Building: New Office Annex (NOX) and Major Rehabilitation/Upgrade". Engineering News-Record . September 16, 2020. Retrieved May 6, 2024.
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