South Front - Freer
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: c. 1950
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 01-082, Box 1, Folder: Photographs, Exterior - South Front
View is of the doorway and south front of the Freer Gallery of Art. Steps, flanked by lamp posts one on either side, lead up to the doorway. In 1916, construction began on the Freer Gallery to house the Asian art collection of Charles Freer. Completion was delayed by World War I and the gallery was not opened until 1923. The Gallery is an Italian Renaissance-style building of Massachusetts granite and Tennessee marble. The building was designed by American architect and landscape planner Charles A. Platt (1861-1933).
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Freer negative H525 8
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Collection 01-082, Box 1, Folder: Photographs, Exterior - South Front
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
c. 1950
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SIA2007-0169
Number of Images: 1; Color: Sepia; Size: 9.8w x 7.5h; Type of Image: Architecture; Medium: Photographic print