Skip to main content
<

Adolf Cluss

Item

Title
Adolf Cluss
Description
In the late 1800s, Adolf Cluss designed four buildings on the National Mall, only one of which still stands today. In 1870, he designed the Center Market. He also designed conservatories for the Department of Agriculture and the Army Medical Museum that stood on the south side of the Mall near what is now Independence Avenue. The surviving Cluss building on the Mall is the Arts and Industries Building, next to the Smithsonian Castle, which Cluss designed with partner Paul Schulze to be a National Museum and house the Smithsonian collections after the Institution outgrew the space in the Castle.
Creator
Adolf Cluss
Source
Smithsonian Institution Archives. View original photograph.
Coverage
1830-1859
1860-1889
birthday
07/14/1825
Item sets
Mall History Test
People
Media
Detail of National Museum Building Committee, 1880

Linked resources

Items with "Creator: Adolf Cluss"
Title Class
Original Department of Agriculture Building Location