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United States Soldiers & Sailors of the Civil War frieze at the National Building Museum (Old Pension Bldg) in Washington, D.C.
by Casper Buberl, Montgomery C Meigs (click name for more of that artist's work)
located in James M. Goode's Judiciary Square & East Downtown area (click link for more in that area)
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The National Building Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. dedicated to "architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning." It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit institution. It is housed in the former Pension Bureau building, a brick structure completed in 1887 and designed by Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, the U.S. Army quartermaster general. The building is notable for several architectural features including the spectacular interior columns and a frieze sculpted by Caspar Buberl stretching around the exterior of the building depicting Civil War soldiers in scenes somewhat reminiscent of those on Trajan's Column in Rome as well as the Horsemen Frieze of the Parthenon in Athens. The vast interior, measuring 316 ft. (96 m) × 116 ft. (35 m), has been used to hold inauguration balls since the building's construction and a Presidential Seal is set into the floor near the south entrance. Source: Wikipedia
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See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture' (hardcover p 250 Item #6.17; Judiciary Square & East Downtown area);
'Outdoor Sculpture' (paperback p231 Item #F-10)
Medium: Terra-cotta
Artist: Casper Buberl, Montgomery C Meigs (click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Civil War
Location: Bounded by F, G, 4th & 5th Sts NW Washington, D.C.
See Judiciary Square & East Downtown area in James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: Judiciary Square (Red) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number DC000220 (dcMem ID #405 )
| "Outdoor Sculpture" (United States Soldiers & Sailors of the Civil War) & "Washington Sculpture" (Civil War Frieze) don't use the same name. |
Links & other sources
National Building Museum website
Goethe Institute on the frieze
Wikipedia on the Civil War
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