The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, originally the Harlem State Office Building, is a nineteen-story, high-rise office building located in the Harlem. It is named after Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African-American elected to Congress from New York. It was designed by the African-American architecture firm of Ifill Johnson Hanchard in the Brutalist style. It is the tallest building in Harlem, overtaking the nearby Hotel Theresa.