Robert Mills' Design for the Smithsonian Institution Building

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Mills, Robert 1781-1855

Board of Regents Committee on Buildings

Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)

Smithsonian Institution Building Competition

Notes

Original watercolor rendering is located in SIA (RU 7058, National Institute records, filed in map case #?). Inscribed by Mills "[Perspective of] the Smithsonian Institution agreeably to the Design"

Summary

Proposed design in a medieval revival style of the north facade for the Smithsonian Institution Building by Robert Mills. The design was submitted for the competition sponsored by the Building Committee of the Board of Regents, December 23, 1846.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 30 Folder 3

Contact information

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

Date

1846

Standard number

85-797

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Architecture

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Architectural; Medium: Photographic print

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Architecture--Drawings and plans

North front

Metadata Usage

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Record ID

siris_sic_9237