Courtyard of Freer Replaced with Grass
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PrintThe first director of the Freer Gallery of Art, John E. Lodge, replaces the brick paving of the museum's courtyard with grass, in an effort to cool the galleries in the days before air conditioning.
Freer Gallery of Art
Chronology of Smithsonian History
OPA Press release for May 1993 FGA opening
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1928