Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- South Yard
- Smithsonian Institution Building South Front
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Published in "The Castle, an Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building" by Cynthia R. Field, Richard E. Stamm and Heather P. Ewing, p. 17.
- Summary
- South facade of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the "Castle," after completion, c. 1858-1864, is dominated by a massive, square battlemented central tower with an attached octagonal stair tower rising well above it. Constructed in red sandstone quarried in Seneca, Maryland, the building was unique not only in style but in material. There is a fence around the building.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 30, Folder: 7
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1858
- Standard number
- 36881or MAH-36881
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exterior
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exterior; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Fences
- Record ID
- siris_sic_8275
