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A marijuana dispensary will replace Atlantic City’s First Presbyterian Church, but its sandstone will find a new home at the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.
The Architecture of Presidential Commemoration” surveys the history of presidential memorialization, a complicated tale.
S.J. Hauck Construction is removing the sandstone bricks from the former church, which are from the same quarry as those used in the construction of the Smithsonian Castle.
Carly Bond, the Smithsonian’s associate director of architectural history and historic preservation, said the quarry that supplied the Castle closed in 1901.
The standoff between President Trump and the Smithsonian Institution ends, for now, as National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet steps down.
President Trump and JD Vance want to eliminate “improper, divisive or anti-American ideology” from Smithsonian museums.
Smithsonian says it’s committed to being free from ‘partisan influence’ after Trump tries to remove gallery director ...
The Smithsonian has issued a statement supporting Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch following President Trump's claim that he fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery.
Smithsonian rejects Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery, is shown in 2022.
Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority.