Corcoran Art Gallery, Northeast corner of Seventeenth Street & Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Summary
Significance: The Corcoran Art Gallery was erected in 1859-61 by William Wilson Corcoran, Washington banker and philanthropist as a gallery for his private collection; the building was designed by James Renwick.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-57
Survey number: HABS DC-49
Building/structure dates: 1859- 1861 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1871-1874 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1889 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: after. 1960- before. 1969 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 69000300
Tags
Date
1933 - 1960
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Renwick, James
Corcoran, William Wilson
Smithsonian Institution
Meigs, Montgomery
Ripley, S Dillon
Ezekiel
Jacobson, Hugh
Universal Restoration, Incorporated
Location
Source
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html