FA&PG Renamed Amer. Art & Portrait Gallery

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Summary

The Fine Arts and Portrait Galleries Building (formerly the Old Patent Office Building) is renamed the American Art and Portrait Galleries Building.

Subject

  • Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library
  • Fine Arts and Portrait Galleries Building (FA&PG)
  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • Patent Office Building (POB)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Guide to Smithsonian Archives. Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution, Number 4. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 143.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1982

Topic

  • Art museums
  • Architecture
  • Name Changes
  • Buildings

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