HISTORICAL NOTE
The Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services established in 1973.
Prior to that it was incorporated in the Buildings Management Department.
Andrew F. Michaels directed the office until 1975 when Phillip K. Reiss became
director and continued in that office through 1980.
DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY
These records consist of documents deemed to be of historical value by the
Office of Facilities Planning and Engineering Services along with photographs,
reports correspondence, contracts and blueprints documenting Smithsonian
buildings and construction projects. The buildings documented include the
Smithsonian Institution Building, the Arts and Industries Building, the Army
Medical Museum, the Natural History Building, the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, the National Zoological Park, the Museum Support Facility at
Silver Hill, the Adelaide Forbes Calhoun Property, the Merriwether Post Estate
Hillwood, the Renwick Museum, the Freer Gallery, and the Old Patent Office
Building. There is substantial documentation of efforts to provide parking on
the mall. Photographs in the collection document a number of activities
including the laying of the corner stone for the Natural History Building, the
turning of the Joseph Henry statue, the removal of Greenough's statue of George
Washington from the Smithsonian Institution Building, the 1970 fire in the
American History Building and repairs and renovations of numerous interior
spaces throughout the Smithsonian.
Box 1 of 3
- Photographs of interiors of the Smithsonian Building
- Blueprints pertaining to Army Medical Museum
- Blueprints pertaining to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- "Catalog of the Architectural Drawings of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1840 - 1971
- Photographs of American College Theatre Festival tent on the mall, 1969
- Exterior and Interior photographs of Smithsonian Building
- Demolition of AFIP Museum Building
- Garage: Record of Stable Supplies, 1902 - 1911
- Recommended Parking and Traffic Improvements, NZP, 1970
- A Study of Visitors to the Smithsonian, 1976
- Washington Mall Parking Facilities Feasibility Analysis, 1976
- Feasibility Study and Master Plan, Museum Depository and Support Facility, Silver Hill, MD, 1970
- Special Studies of Visitation, Transportation, and Parking for the museums on the mall, 1980.
- Photographs of the Natural History Building including laying of corner stone
- Photographs, turning of the Henry statue
- Photographs, removal of Greenough Washington statue from Smithsonian Building
- Photographs, interiors, Smithsonian Building, NMNH, Barney House
- Photographs, exterior and interior of Smithsonian Building
- Blueprints, Adelaide Forbes Calhoun Property, 1964
- Smithsonian Grounds, 1919
- Photographs, interior and exterior, Arts & Industries Building
- Materials for Mall Site Reservation Hearings, 1974
- Museum Support Center, Costs and Reductions, 1980
- Bicentennial Transportation Study for the National Capital Area
- Smithsonian Visitor, 1969
- A Study of Visitors to the Smithsonian, 1976
- Arts & Industries Building Roof, 1980 (3 folders)
Box 2 of 3
- Photographs, Smithsonian Institution Facilities
- Smithsonian Today, 1972
- Museum Support Facility, Initial Planning, Summary Report
- Survey of Buildings and Other Facilities, 1974
- Survey Toward a Master Plan for the United States Capitol, 1976
- Museum Support Facility Initial Planning Study, Final Report, 1975
- Parking Management Policies and Auto Control Zones, 1976
- Building Management Department, Representative Projects
- Hillwood (2 folders)
- Museum Support Center Architects-Engineers-Planners
- Washington Mall Parking Facilities Feasibility Analysis, 1971 (2 folders)
- Mall Parking Study Phase II
- Wilbur Smith Study (Parking), 1975
- Smithsonian Institution Building, Windows, 1956
- Feasibility Study for the Renovation and Improvement of the Original Smithsonian Institution Building
- Final Report of the Board of Inquiry convened to investigate the conditions and possible causes of a fire occurring in the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology on September 30, 1970 (including photographs)
- Smithsonian Institution National Zoological Park, 1961, Master Plan
- Report of the National Zoological Park Commission, 1890
- Statutory History of the National Zoological Park
- Renwick Museum Renovation Contract Folder 15473, 1968
Box 3 of 3
- Renwick Museum Renovation Contract Folder 15473, 1968
- Renwick Restoration Specifications (4 folders)
- Smithsonian Institution Building, Renovation Project Directive, 1966
- Old Patent Office Building or Civil Service Building
- Specification for the Restoration and Renovation of the Arts and Industries Museum, 1973 (2 folders)
- Freer
- Freer Air Conditioning
- Right of Way, Silver Hill
- New Museum Building (Natural History Building), 1911
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