Arts and Industries Building Closed
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Date: January 1, 2007
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The Arts and Industries Building is closed to staff, pending renovations. It was designed by architect Adolph Cluss, and opened in 1881 as the first National Museum building in the United States. It was the second Smithsonian building, opening some thirty years after the Smithsonian Institution Building or Castle.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 1, 2007
Washington (D.C.)