Old Patent Office Building, 1856. As Secretary of the Interior from 1877 to 1881 under President Rutherford B. Hayes, Carl Schurz's office was located in the Patent Office Building that takes up the ...

The Patent Office Building, which dates to 1836, is the third oldest federal building in Washington and has served as a government office and, during the Civil War, even as an infirmary.

In addition to a wing on the eastern side of the old building, ... This article was originally published with the title “ Patent Office Building ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 13 ...

The Patent Office Building was authorized in 1836 by Andrew Jackson. Displays of patent models were the main attraction. By 1857, it had 100,000 visitors a year.

The Old Patent Office building is a Greek Revival structure, built (1836-66) by Robert Mills and became home to the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) in 1968. In 1980, NCFA was renamed the ...

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The Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C., completed in 1867, houses two Smithsonian Institution museums—the National Portrait Gallery and the American Art Museum. Collections include ...

After a meticulous, top-to-bottom renovation, the old Patent Office Building—newly rechristened the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture—was nearly ready to reopen.

Old Patent Office Building, ca. 1846 Wikimedia Commons When Pierre-Charles L’Enfant drew his visionary plan for a capital city of the new United States in 1791, he included a site that might ...

The historic Old Patent Office Building in Washington, D.C. covers an entire city block defined by F and G Streets and 7th and 9th Streets NW in Chinatown. After undergoing extensive renovations ...

JAMES R. SHEPLEYTHE long corridors of Washington's ' old Patent Office Building are ornate reminders of 19th century architecture. But now that the Patent Office has moved, the building ...