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
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- 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
- 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
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Architecture--Drawings and plans
- North front
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9237
