SMITHSONIAN ARTS AND INDUSTRIES BUILDING - A landmark structure of red brick and Ohio sandstone, the Arts and Industries Building (originally known as the U.S. National Museum) was designed in a High Victorian style by the Washington architectural firm of Cluss and Schulze. Opened in 1881 in time for the inaugural ball of President James A. Garfield, the building was constructed to exhibit materials acquired from the nation's Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia. The The Smithsonian Institution Was founded by Congress at Washington, D.C., with a £100,000 bequest from the late James Smithson who died in 1829 at age 64. Illegitimate son of the late duke of Northumberland Hugh Smithson Percy who died in 1786, Smithson was a chemist-mineralogist.

Smithsonian Institution's Castle Building.

The most famous view of the Smithsonian Institution's Castle Building, as seen from the center of the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

District of Columbia A federal district of the eastern United States on the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland. Coextensive with the city of Washington. It was established by congressional acts of 1790 and 1791 on a site selected by George Washington.

Washington, D.C. City and district capital of the United States of America, located at the confluence of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Population, 606, 900+.

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