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The National Gallery of Art

Architectural design

By: Eggers & Higgins

Date: 1941

Source: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. "National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., West Facade." Gottscho-Schleisner Collection. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html (accessed March 25, 2003).

About the Architects: The famous architectural firm of Eggers & Higgins was comprised of Daniel Higgins (1886–1953) and Otto R. Eggers (1882–1964). Higgins left school to support his family after eighth grade, eventually learning accounting and architecture. Eggers was hired by John Russell Pope as a talented architect in 1912. Eggers and Higgins worked for Pope until he died in 1937; then the two formed their own firm. Higgins'...