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Time running out for portrait gallery plan

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / July 5

This past weekend, thousands of Americans joyously swarmed the newly renovated historic Patent Office Building to celebrate the return of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum. Elizabeth Broun of the Smithsonian American Art Museum declared that the renovated $283-million (U.S.) patent building, originally "a temple of invention," was "symbolic of the American spirit."

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