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- Christy HribarNovember 5, 2021AIB is inviting you to travel through space and time with the largest exploration of the future by the Smithsonian this November 19-21. Check out the opening events here! https://aib.si.edu/futures/
- Christy HribarOctober 8, 2021AIB is celebrating the Smithsonian's 175th anniversary with a new exhibition called FUTURES. Open November 20th - July 6th, FUTURES will allow visitors to reflect on different versions of the future.
- IWalked Audio ToursMay 27, 2013Site of the 1881 inaugural ball for President James A. Garfield (attended by some 7,000 people), and was the cheapest government building ever built ($3 per square foot). Full history via<LINK> Read more
- DC Preservation LeagueMay 11, 2011Constructed between 1879 and 1881, this is the nation’s best preserved example of 19th-century world’s fair or exposition-type architecture; Adolf Cluss Architect; National Historic Landmark.
- DC Preservation LeagueJuly 27, 2011Constructed between 1879-1881 by architects Cluss & Schulze, it was built to house the international exhibits left over from the Philadephia Continennial Exhibition of 1876.
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