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IBEW Local 481 Work Crew		Completed in October 1953, the building is the largest defense-related building in the country other than the Pentagon. It stands three floors high, is 996 feet long and 612 feet wide. The structure was built, as were most major buildings in Indianapolis, with the union labor of central Indiana’s building trades. Among the working people involved in the construction of the building were: Paul Cousert, Ted Miller and Hugh South of Indianapolis, and Art Longerbone of Fortville. Once complete, the complex centralized the Army’s payroll and disbursement activities that had previously been scattered across the country. Five years later, the building came to house the U.S. Army Enlisted Records and Evaluation Center and in 1990, it became the site for all defense-related finance and accounting agencies, the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS).
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Paul E. Cousert, retired electrician, IBEW Local 481. Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, p. 593. (Fort Benjamin Harrison) Stephen E. Bower, History of Fort Benjamin Harrison, 1903-1982 (Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 1984).