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Institution name changes to "Forest Haven" 1967 Joy Evans court-ordered to Forest Haven 1971 Curley Building opened 1972 More than 100 job vacancies at Forest Haven reported February 23, 1973 Evans v. Fenty lawsuit filed 1974 Nearby orphanage "Junior Village" closes, 20 children are relocated to Forest Haven July 1976 Joy Evans dies (age 18) 1978
Edward Cutbush, MD (1772–1843), Naval surgeon and founder of the Columbian Institution and Geneva Medical College. [15] Nathaniel Cutting (d.1824), Merchant, diplomat and public official. [16] Asbury Dickins (1780–1861), Chief Clerk of the Treasury Department and Secretary of the United States Senate. Served as Secretary of the institute ...
Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1987 [9] Arts and Industries Building: Special event venue Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1881 [10] Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: Design history New York City Museum Mile: 1897 [11] Freer Gallery of Art (affiliated with the Sackler Gallery) Asian art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 1923 [9]
The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum located in Washington, D.C. that displays American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to 21st century. The gallery is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was opened in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art .
The Smithsonian Folklife Festival, launched in 1967, is an international exhibition of living cultural heritage presented annually in the summer in Washington, D.C. in the United States. [1] It is held on the National Mall for two weeks around the Fourth of July (the U.S. Independence Day ) holiday. [ 1 ]
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The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum , it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [ 3 ]
The Freer Gallery of Art is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. focusing on Asian art. The Freer and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery together form the National Museum of Asian Art in the United States. [2]