National Building Museum
- Historically Known As: Pension Building
- Address: 4th St and 5th St NW
- Vicinity: Between F St and G St
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Gov John Cook House |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1871/00/00 | James Heaton Baker | Work | James H Baker is appointed Commissioner of Pensions by President U S Grant. Baker will work here until 1875. | |||
| 1882/00/00 | Designed by Montgomery C Meigs, construction begins on the Federal Pension Bureau building, in Washington, DC. | |||||
| 1884/00/00 | The Pension Bureau's first of 1600 clerks begin distributing payments from their new building. | |||||
| 1885/03/04 | Grover Cleveland | President | Inaugural Ball for Grover Cleveland is held in the Pension Building. | Grover Cleveland 1884 Campaign for US President | ||
| 1887/00/00 | Montgomery C Meigs | Architect | After five years of construction, the Pension Bureau building is completed a cost of $886,614.04. | |||
| 1887/00/00 | Casper Buberl | Sculptor | Caspar Buberl's quarter of a mile long frieze of Union soldiers and Sailors marching is installed on the exterior of the Pension Building. | |||
| 1889/03/04 | Clement Studebaker | Inauguration Committee Member | Inaugural Ball for Benjamin Harrison is held in the Pension Building. | |||
| 1889/03/04 | Benjamin Harrison | President | Inaugural Ball for Benjamin Harrison is held in the Pension Building. | |||
| 1893/03/04 | George W Wallace (dance instructor) | Master of Ceremonies | Grover Cleveland's Inaugural Ball for his 2nd term in office. | |||
| 1893/03/04 | Frances Folsom Cleveland | First Lady | Grover Cleveland's Inaugural Ball for his 2nd term in office. | |||
| 1893/03/04 | Grover Cleveland | President | Grover Cleveland's Inaugural Ball for his 2nd term in office. | |||
| 1897/03/04 | William McKinley | President | William McKinley's Inaugural Ball is held in the Pension Building. | |||
| 1905/03/04 | Theodore Roosevelt | President | Theodore Roosevelt's Inaugural Ball is held in the Pension Building. | |||
| 1909/03/04 | William Howard Taft | President | Inaugural Ball for William Howard Taft is held in the Pension Building. | |||
| 1910/06/30 | Ending fiscal year, the Veteran Pension Bureau reports paying $106,433,465 to 562,615 invalid Civil War Veterans, or about 28 percent of all American men aged 65 or more. | End of the American Civil War | ||||
| 2008/06/07 | Hillary Rodham Clinton | Politician | Hillary Clinton suspends her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination with a rally at the National Building Museum: "If we can blast fifty women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House." |
| Particulars for National Building Museum: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Building Attribute | Atrium |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Criteria Consideration | Commemorative property |
| Area of Significance | Engineering |
| Owner | Federal |
| Historic Use | Government Office |
| Criteria | Historic Event |
| Art Movement | Italian Renaissance Revival |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Area of Significance | Politics-government |
| Architectural Style | Renaissance Revival |
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