Patent Office Building Renovation Begins

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Summary

By December, the United States Congress appropriates funds for remodeling of the Patent Office Building expected to be vacated by the Civil Service Commission in 1963 and be ready for the National Collection of Fine Arts and National Portrait Gallery in 1965.

Subject

  • United States Civil Service Commission
  • National Collection of Fine Arts)
  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • Patent Office Building (POB)
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1962. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1963, p. 94.

Contact information

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

Date

December, 1961

Topic

  • Architecture
  • Expenditures, Public
  • Interagency Transfers
  • Buildings

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