NE corner, 17th St. and Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, District Of Columbia. County/parish: District of Columbia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 24, 1969. NRIS 69000300.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
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. When it was built in 1859, it was called "the American Louvre", and is now named for its architect James Renwick Jr.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/117692444