BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Building Museum

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BLDG_150618_105.JPG: The National Building Museum Civil War to Civil Rights -- Downtown Heritage Trail -- "It's too bad the damn thing is fire proof," General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887. The nation's only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in one of the most extraordinary structures in the nation's capital. Constructed between 1882 and 1887, this Italian Renaissance palace was built to house the Pension Bureau, which administered thousands of pensions owed Civil War soldiers and the families of those who died. It was designed by an engineer, Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, who had served the Union cause as Quartermaster General. General Meigs himself lost his son, John Rogers Meigs, in the Civil War. Some have called this building, with its symbolic parade of Union Forces, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of its day. Although modeled on Rome's Palazzo Farnese, its provisions for light, air circulation, and fireproofing made it the federal government's first modern office building. Built in red brick rather than the white sandstone and marble of other federal buildings, it was ridiculed by many at the time. "It's too bad the damn thing is fireproof," said General William Tecumseh Sherman. A 1,200-foot-long terra cotta frieze encircles the entire building, depicting all the Union forces in the Civil War - infantry, cavalry, and artillery troops, and naval, quartermaster, and medical personnel. Inside, massive 75-foot-tall columns, made of brick and finished to look like marble, punctuate a 300-foot-long Great Hall. The Great Hall has been the site of 14 presidential inaugural balls, starting with Grover Cleveland's in 1885, even before the building was completed. Threatened with demolition in the 1960s, the building was saved by citizen action. It became home to the National Building Museum by an act of Congress in 1980.
2. BLDG_150618_109.JPG: Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, above, designed and built the Pension Building with a great hall reminiscent of a Renaissance palace. He used 15-1/2 million bricks.
3. BLDG_150618_127.JPG: The Great Hall decorated for the inaugural ball of President William McKinley in 1901.
4. BLDG_150618_130.JPG: A portion of the terra cotta frieze which encircles the building honors the Union forces in the Civil War.
5. BLDG_150618_138.JPG: Civil War infantrymen march around the National Building Museum in a 1,200-foot-long terra cotta frieze that surrounds the red brick structure.
6. BLDG_151125_01.JPG: Grant
7. BLDG_151125_35.JPG: Completed August 1887 Grover Cleveland , being President of the United States; John J. Ingalls, President of the Senate; L.Q.C. Lamar, Secretary of the Interior; John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions; Genl. M.C. Meigs, Architect. Population -- 61,000,000
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