Portrait Gallery

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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.
 

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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

 

Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

death mask

 

 

 

Ulysses S. Grant

 

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Grover Cleveland

 

Woodrow Wilson

 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

Harry S. Truman

 

Jimmy Carter

 

George H. W. Bush

 

George Bush


 

Ulysses S. Grant

 

 

 


 

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


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