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The Renwick Gallery opened in the former Corcoran Gallery of Art Building next to Blair House, designed by James Renwick, Jr. Administered by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the gallery is devoted to American creativity in crafts, design, and decorative arts. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_924.
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Thursday, January 27, 1972
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People gathered in the Grand Salon at the opening of new Renwick Gallery on January 27, 1972. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder March 1972.