Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services Search this
Extent:
1.19 cu. ft. (1 document box) (1 16x20 box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Architectural drawings
Sketches
Manuscripts
Date:
1961-1969 and undated
Descriptive Entry:
This accession includes blueprints for modifications and renovations to various systems and spaces at the National Museum of Natural History, and cabinet sketches for
the National Zoological Park Bird House.
Topic:
Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction Search this
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services Search this
Extent:
3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Black-and-white photographs
Manuscripts
Architectural drawings
Place:
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
Date:
1973-1980, with records dating from 1890
Descriptive Entry:
These records consist of documents deemed to be of historical value by the Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services along with photographs, reports correspondence,
contracts and blueprints documenting Smithsonian buildings and construction projects. The buildings documented include the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Arts and Industries
Building, the Army Medical Museum, the Natural History Building, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Zoological Park, the Museum Support Facility at Silver
Hill, the Adelaide Forbes Calhoun Property, the Merriwether Post Estate Hillwood, the Renwick Gallery, the Barney Studio House, the Freer Gallery, and the Old Patent Office
Building. There is substantial documentation of efforts to provide parking on the mall. Photographs in the collection document a number of activities including the laying
of the corner stone for the Natural History Building, the turning of the Joseph Henry statue, the removal of Greenough's statue of George Washington from the Smithsonian Institution
Building, the 1970 fire in the American History Building and repairs and renovations of numerous interior spaces throughout the Smithsonian.
Historical Note:
The Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services was established in 1973. Prior to that it was incorporated in the Buildings Management Department. Andrew
F. Michaels directed the office until 1975 when Phillip K. Reiss became director and continued in that office through 1980.
Final Report of the Board of Inquiry convened to investigate the conditions and possible causes of a fire occurring in the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology on September 30, 1970 (including photographs)
Collection Creator::
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services Search this
Container:
Box 2 of 3
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 562, Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services, Records
