Escalator Installed in Rotunda of NHB

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Summary

An escalator is introduced at the rotunda entrance and a section of the first floor removed in construction.

Subject

  • National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
  • Natural History Building

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

ODC No. NHB742B ('74). See Barre Klapper's "Changes to the Original Fabric, 1911-89" in OAHP.

Contact information

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

Date

1974

Topic

  • Architecture
  • Repair and reconstruction
  • Rotundas
  • Escalators
  • Building
  • Buildings--Repair and reconstruction

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