 Since 1977, the facility was located at Neustädtische Kirchstrasse 4-5, several blocks from the former Palais Blücher site in the Mitte district.The embassy building was built in the late 19th century as a club for Prussian officers, and after World War I became the home to a craft guild.This five-storey, gabled building was leased to the U.S. by the East Germans.