National Building Museum
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The National Building Museum is a museum of architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning in Northwest Washington, D.C., U.S. It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is
National Building Museum in 2023
Interior of the Pension Office, c. 1918
The National Building Museum's Corinthian columns are among the largest in the world measuring 75 ft. (23 m) tall and 8 ft. (2.4 m) in diameter. They are made of 70,000 bricks and are painted to look like marble.
The museum's south entrance
Montgomery C. Meigs
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Montgomery Cunningham Meigs was a career United States Army officer and military and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War. Altho
National Building Museum
…Landmark in 1985. The National Building Museum is housed in the former Pension Bureau building, a brick structure completed in 1887 and designed by Montgomery C. Meigs, the U.S. Army quartermaster general. It is notable for several architectural features, including the spectacular interior columns and a frieze, sculpted…
Montgomery C. Meigs
Meigs in March 1861, roughly a month before the outbreak of the American Civil War
Montgomery C. Meigs
The Civil War Unknowns Monument c. 1866, designed by Montgomery Meigs.