Object Details
- Author
- Renwick, James 1818-1895
- Subject
- Renwick, James 1818-1895
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Smithsonian Institution Building Competition
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Published in C. R. Field, R. E. Stamm, and H. P. Ewing, The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, pg.9.
- Summary
- Four Gothic scheme sketches of the proposed Smithsonian Institution Building drawn by architect James Renwick, Jr. The sketches, made in pencil and some ink on paper, include: an elevation of the north facade, a plan of the first floor, an elevation of the west wing, and an elevation of the south central tower and are the earliest known conceptual drawings that the architect made.
- James Renwick, Jr., began his design of the Smithsonian Institution Building with a Gothic castle and eventually reworked it into a Romanesque castle. This later scheme won him the competition in 1846 to appoint an architect for the design of the Smithsonian's first building.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 92, Item 294
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1846
- Standard number
- SIA2012-1146
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Paper
- Drawing
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 Color: Color ; Size: 10.5w x 7h] ; Type of Image: Architectural Drawing ; Medium: Paper
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Architecture, Gothic
- Buildings
- Architecture, Romanesque
- Architectural drawing
- Architecture
- Architecture--Design and plans
- Architectural design
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13253
