National Building Museum (Pension Building)

1:1500 scale miniature paper model, roughly 3.25 inches wide when built

General Montgomery C. Meigs designed this Washington, D.C. office building to house the Pension Bureau for the benefit of Civil War veterans. The building was the world's largest masonry structure when completed in 1887, containing over fifteen million bricks. The Great Hall has been the site of many inaugural balls since the first election of President Grover Cleveland.

Read more:

• Visiting hours and exhibits at the National Building Museum
• NPS history of the Pension Building
• Streets of Washington shares photos and stories about the building
• National Building Museum: Art Spaces, by Laura Burd Schiavo, Scala Publishers (2007)

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