Request for New Museum Building
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PrintThe Board of Regents resolves to ask United States Congress to provide for the erection of a suitable building at the Smithsonian for the additional museum collections resulting from donations of exhibits from the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. The $250,000 request to Congress is presented on February 6, in a memorial dated February 5, written by the Board of Regents.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
January 24, 1877