Buffalo Barn at the National Zoo, 1891
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Creator: Bell, C.M
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1891
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 35, Folder: 8
View of the Buffalo Barn, the first house constructed at the National Zoological Park on April 15, 1891, soon after its completion. Designed by Boston architect William Ralph Emerson, the rough-hewn log house evoked the cabins of the American West -- an appropriate association given the inhabitants: buffalo and elk, quintessentially North American animals. Paddocks were added for the elk soon after construction; because of the limited appropriation, they were not afforded a house of their own.
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Source: AR 1891: 49. See also OAHP Newsletter; and neg. 9039. The back of the photo says it was taken on April 15, 1891, at 11 a.m.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 35, Folder: 8
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1891
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9038 or MAH-9038
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print