The Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

ID: 2779 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2011 ~ Date: 2011

This file appears in: Arts and Industries Building: Constructed between 1879 and 1881, this is the nation’s best-preserved example of nineteenth-century world’s fair architecture.

This file appears in: Arts and Industries Building: Constructed between 1879 and 1881, this is the nation’s best-preserved example of nineteenth-century world’s fair architecture.

Arts and Industries Building: Constructed between 1879 and 1881, this is the nation’s best-preserved example of nineteenth-century world’s fair architecture.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Designed by Cluss & Schulze and built to house the international exhibits left over from the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building…