Structures of the type Museum
Abner Pratt House (Honolulu House), Marshall Michigan
Date added:April 05, 2011
This mid-nineteenth century mansion is believed locally to be a replica of the dwelling which Abner Pratt occupied when Consol to the Sandwich Islands in 1857.
In 1883, M. W. Wagner repaired and altered the house. Bay windows were added to the north and south facades. On the interior, fresco murals were done, and molded plaster centerpieces were added to the ceiling.
More...Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington DC
Date added:October 05, 2010
This was a specially designed building, intended as the fireproof, permanent home of the Army Medical Museum, which was founded in 1862. It housed collection of surgical and medical specimens and a medical library.
It was demolished in 1969 and its collections transferred to Walter Reed Hospital, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
More...Corcoran Art Gallery (US Court of Claims/Renwick Gallery), Washington DC
Date added:November 29, 2010
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, located at the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street, N. W, , Washington, D.C., was erected 1859-1861 by William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888), Washington banker and philanthropist, as an art gallery for his private collection of paintings and sculpture. The building was designed by James Renwick, Jr. , the prominent New York architect who designed the original Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington in 1847 and the Oak Hill Cemetery Chapel in Georgetown, D.C. in 1859. The history of the Renwick Gallery falls into the following periods of time: erection, 1859-1861; occupation by the U.S. Army, 1861-1869; restoration, 1869-1873; home of the Corcoran Art Gallery, 1874-1897; home of the U.S. Court of Claims, 1899-1964; and the acquisition and restoration of the building by the Smithsonian Institution in 1965-1972.
It was natural for W. W. Corcoran to choose Renwick as the architect, for they had been friends for some fifteen years. Due mainly to Corcoran's influence, Renwick was chosen to design the original Smithsonian Institution Building in 1847 (the Smithsonian had deposited its funds since it's beginning in 1846 with the Corcoran and Riggs Bank of Washington, D.C). Renwick was assisted by his partner, Robert T. Auchmutz in the design of the building. Both Renwick and Corcoran visited the Paris Exposition of 1854 and must have viewed the new addition to the Louvre which had just been erected in the Second Empire style. The Renwick Gallery has many features which were inspired by the Louvre additions.
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Leffingwell Inn, Norwich Connecticut
Old State House, Hartford Connecticut