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Celebrating the history of the National Building Museum.

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Page 1: NBM Online Anniversary Timeline

NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUMan illustrated timeline

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18841882

Construction on the Pension Building, the future home of the National Building Museum, begins.

Pension Bureau moves into the building.

President Grover Cleveland’s inaugural ball, the first to take place in the Pension

Building, is held in the Great Hall

1885 1887

Pension Building construction completed. The finished building contains 15,500,000 bricks and costs $886,614.04 to construct.

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1889

President Benjamin Harrison’s inaugural ball.

19011897

President William McKinley’s first inaugural ball.

President William McKinley’s second inaugural ball.

1909

President William Taft’s inaugural ball.

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1926

Pension Bureau moves to another location.

1950Government Accounting Office (GAO) moves into the building.

The Government Accounting Office moves into a new building across G Street. Various other tenants, including the Civil Service Commission and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia occupy the building until 1980, when restoration work for the creation of the National Building Museum begins.

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1967

In the early 1960s, the General Services Admin i s t ra t i on (G SA) cons ide rs demolishing the building. Under pressure from preservationists, GSA commissions Washington architect Chloethiel Woodard Smith to explore other possibilities for its use. The result is the 1967 report, “The Pension Building: A Building in Search of a Client,” which introduces the idea of converting the building into a museum of the building arts.

19731969

Pension Building listed on the National Register of Historic Places

President Richard Nixon’s inaugural ball.

Committee for the Museum of the Building Arts is formed.

1975 1978

Congress passes a resolution calling for the preservation of the building as a national treasure.

1980

An Act of Congress mandates the creation of the National Building Museum as a private, nonprofit educational institution. The Act establishes a private-public partnership btween the GSA, the Department of the Interior, and the Museum

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1980

Bates Lowry is named the first director of the National Building Museum.

Extensive renovation and adaptive reuse work begins on the Pension

Building to restore it to its nineteenth-century appearance.

President Ronald Reagan’s inaugural ball.

First issue of Blueprints, the Museum’s first publication. A quarterly journal devoted to all aspects of the building arts and the built environment, Blueprints discusses topics ranging from urban skyscrapers to suburban housing to landscape architecture.

1982

The annual holiday television special Christmas in Washington is taped in the Great Hall for the first time.

The National Building Museum has hosted Christmas in Washington every year since.

1981

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1982

The Museum receives an unprecedented gift of 50,000 drawings created by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company between 1900 and 1954. The collection remains one of the largest and most valuable of its kind.

19851983

The Museum expands its permanent collection with the acquisition of the Wurts Brothers Photography Collection. This internationally recognized collection, comprising some 20,000 prints and negatives, is the Museum’s largest and most significant photographic archives until 2006.

The Museum begins its docent program.

On October 24, 1985, the National Building Museum opens to the public with four exhibitions, anchored by Building a National Image: Architectural Drawings for the American Democracy. In the same year, the Pension Building is designated a National Historic Landmark.

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1985

The Museum holds its first Festival of the Building Arts, an all-day, all-ages festival that celebrates the built environment. The Festival of the Building Arts is a National Building Museum tradition that continues today.

19871986

Robert W. Duemling is named President and

Director of the National Building Museum.

The Museum institutes its annual Honor Award to recognize individuals and corporations that have made important contributions to the nation’s built environment. The first recipient is J. Irwin Miller, cited for his work to bring buildings designed by America’s greatest architects to his native city of Columbus, Indiana

President Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural ball.

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1988

Restoration and renovation efforts in the building are completed.

19911989

The Museum opens its first long-term exhibition, Washington: Symbol and City, exploring the dynamic tension between the twin roles played by the capital city. The first iteration of the show is on view for 10 years. The second iteration opens in 2004 and is still open today.

President George Bush’s inaugural ball.

A 65-foot-high, Frank Gehry-designed sculpture is installed in the Museum’s Great Hall by nearly 600 volunteers from the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association and the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association as part of the Sheet Metal Craftsmanship: Progress in Building exhibition. 

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1993

Susan Henshaw Jones is appointed President and Director of the Museum.

1996

The Museum launches the Investigating Where We Live outreach program that teaches local students how to interpret Washington, D.C., neighborhoods through photography and creative writing.

President Bill Clinton’s first inaugural ball.

The Museum launches its CityVision outreach program for middle and junior high school students, which teaches participants how to initiate and promote change in their community through design.

The Museum launches its premier lecture series, Spotlight on Design, which features famous and cutting-edge designers and architects from

around the world. Some notable speakers over the years have

included Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Rem Koolhaas, David Adjaye, Jean

Nouvel, and Steven Holl.

1994

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1997

The Museum begins its lecture series Building in the 21st Century in partnership with the Department of Energy. The

series offers free noontime lectures focused on energy-efficient and economical technologies and construction techniques.

1998

The Museum holds its first Smart Growth lecture. The

Smart Growth speaker series is a free, noontime program,

presented in association with the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, which promotes dialogue and research of sustainable

development strategies that preserve community character

and protect the environment.

President Bill Clinton’s second inaugural ball.

The Pension Building is officially renamed the National Building Museum.

The Museum holds its first Discover Engineering Family Night, which would grow into the Zoom into Engineering Festival in 2002 and become the popular Discover Engineering Family Day, which is still held at the Museum today. From the beginning, the event celebrates engineering and shows audiences of all-ages how professional engineers turn an idea into reality.

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1999

A new outreach effort for area youth, the Design Apprenticeship Program (DAP), begins. This 30-hour program conducted on five-to-six consecutive Saturdays offers students an intensive experience in which they design and construct projects.

2000

The Museum establishes the Vincent Scully Prize to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation, and urban design. The first recipient is the eminent architectural historian himself.

The Washington Post names the National Building Museum

Shop “best in the city.”

More than 1,600 people attend a Spotlight on Design lecture by Frank Gehry in the Great Hall. The lecture holds the record for largest public lecture attendance at the Museum.

The Museum’s most popular exhibition to date, The White House in Miniature, opens. On average, 22,661 visitors tour the exhibition each month during its five and half month run.

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2001

The Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology, endowed by the Turner Construction Company, is created. The first recipient is the noted structural engineer Leslie E. Robertson.

2002

President George W. Bush’s first inaugural ball.Chase W. Rynd is appointed executive director and president of the National Building Museum.

In response to the attacks of September 11th, the Museum presents a year-long series of

exhibitions and education programs titled Building in the Aftermath,

including the exhibitions Twin Towers Remembered: Photographs by

Camilo José Vergara and A New World Trade Center: Design Proposals, opening in 2002.

The Museum receives the Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Education Programs.

2003

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2003 2004

This Old House films master carpenter Norm Abram touring the Museum’s acclaimed exhibition Do-It-Yourself: Home Improvement in 20th-Century America with curator Chrysanthe Broikos and creates a one-hour TV special based on the exhibition.

The Museum opens the immensely popular Liquid Stone:

New Architecture in Concrete exhibition, featuring the public debut of translucent concrete.

As the issue of sustainability comes to the forefront, the Museum opens the exhibition Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century, which explores environmentally-friendly designs for skyscrapers and other megastructures.

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2005 2006

In partnership with the American Planning Association, the Museum hosts its first L’Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Design with Sir Peter Hall. The lecture is established to draw attention to critical issues in city and regional planning in the United States. Later L’Enfant lecturers include: Enrique Peñalosa, Teddy Cruz, Paul Goldberger, and Barry Bergdoll.

The Museum launches the Bridge Basics Curriculum Kit for national audiences. The kit is introduced into schools in Washington, D.C., followed by schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in June of 2009.

The Museum constructs a full-scale replica of architect Michelle Kaufmann’s Glidehouse in its blockbuster exhibition The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design, focused on the greening of residential architecture. First Lady Laura Bush visits the exhibition shortly after it opens in the summer of 2006.

President George W. Bush’s second inaugural ball.

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2006 2007

The Museum expands its permanent collection with the acquisition of the Architectural Toy Collection and the Robert C. Lautman Photography Collection.

The Museum raises a record $1.28 million in conjunction with its annual Honor Award gala, which is presented to the prominent development firm Related.

The Architectural Toy Collection is one of the largest and most sophisticated of its kind held in public trust within the United States.

The Lautman Collection contains more than 30,000 prints, transparencies, and negatives documenting American architectural trends during the second half of the 20th century.

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2007

David Macaulay leads visitors in sketching exercises just for fun and as a new way of seeing and responding to their surroundings during the Big Draw event celebrating the exhibition David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture.

The Museum launches For the Greener Good: Conversations that Will Change the World, a lecture series that calls on experts from diverse backgrounds to investigate links between environmental sustainability and design, public health, energy policy, bioscience, infrastructure, education, and even popular culture.

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2008

The Museum opens the newly renovated Beverly Willis Library named in honor of founding trustee and pioneering architect Beverly A. Willis, FAIA. The 1,900-square-foot facility serves as a multi-purpose resource center with library, study center, and conference room.

The Museum launches its redesigned web site with new multimedia content and increased opportunities for online engagement with constituents.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers her concession speech for the Democratic Presidential

nomination to then-Senator Barack Obama in the Museum’s Great Hall.

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2008

On November 14-15, the National Building Museum hosts the G-20

Leaders Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy.

The Museum begins its fellowship program with its first Field Visiting Scholars. Fellowships at the National Building Museum provide scholars with opportunities to pursue independent research related to the Museum’s potential or planned exhibitions or its permanent collections.

The Museum’s school programs have record-breaking attendance, welcoming

more than 20,000 students during the school year.

President Barack Obama’s inaugural ball.

The Museum launches its Industry Council for the Built Environment. The annual event attracts leaders who determine and influence the quality of our built world.

2009

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2009

A team from Virginia Tech completes construction of the Lumenhaus, its 2009 Solar Decathlon entry, on the Museum’s

West Lawn.

The Museum hosts the World Habitat Day 2009 celebrations in the Great Hall. Speakers include U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan and musician and activist Jon Bon Jovi.

The Museum sets a record for annual attendance with 436,315 visitors.

The 2010 National Cherry Blossom Family

Day and Opening Ceremony sets a record

for the number visitors to the Museum in a single

day at 12,354.

2010