Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.) Search this
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Physical description:
Number of Images: 1 Color: Color Size: 8.5w x 6.8h ; Type of Image: Architectural Drawing Medium: Paper
Type:
Paper
Drawing
Date:
1846
Category:
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes:
Published in C. R. Field, R. E. Stamm, and H. P. Ewing, The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, pg.11.
Summary:
This preliminary drawing shows the Romanesque east wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building as architect James Renwick, Jr., originally designed it. The small octagonal plan relates to the east wing as it was developed for Renwick's Gothic scheme. The drawing is made in pencil on paper.
James Renwick, Jr., began his design of the Smithsonian Institution Building with a Gothic castle and eventually reworked it into a Romanesque castle. This later scheme won him the competition in 1846 to appoint an architect for the design of the Smithsonian's first building.
Contained within:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 92, Item 297
