Plans for South Quad Project Approved
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PrintThe National Capital Planning Commission approves conceptual plans for the South Quadrangle project. In approving this project, the NCPC "disagreed with a report by its staff which contended that the structure planned for MAA would not give the Museum sufficient prominence." The Committee suggested alternate locations near the National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American Art, now known as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, but Museum of African Art director Warren Robbins reminded the Commission of his desire for the Museum to be on the National Mall.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, "The Torch," February 1981, p. 1.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 8, 1981