National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery is a historic art gallery, located at Eighth and F Streets, Northwest, Washington, D.C., administered by the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections focus on images of famous individual Americans.
It resides in the National Historic Landmarked Old Patent Office Building (now
renamed the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture), located
just south of Chinatown in the Penn Quarter district of downtown Washington. The
third oldest federal building in the city, constructed between 1836 and 1867,
the marble and granite museum has porticoes modeled after the Parthenon in
Athens, Greece.
Holiday Market
It was spared from demolition by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1958, and given
to the Smithsonian, which renovated the structure and opened the National Museum
of American Art (later renamed the Smithsonian American Art Museum) and National
Portrait Gallery there in 1968.
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Holiday Market offering
Hotel across the street
on the "Hop On - Hop Off" route
International Spy Museum is across the street
map of the Smithsonian Museums
Portraits
death mask
George Bush
Marian Anderson
Prof. Lewes
Colin Luther Powell, born April 5, 1937, an American statesman and a retired four-star general in the United States Army
Bill & Melinda Gates
