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National Portrait Gallery: Temple of Invention

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A wonderful click-through slideshow of one of America's most-graceful examples of Gothic Revival architecture. The U.S. Patent Office Building, which dates from 1836, is now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. An impressive pictorial history of the building known to generations as the "temple of invention."

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)