CONSTRUCTION OF ARCHIVE BUILDING IS FIRST NEED SAYS LT.COL. SHERRILL
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On October 7, 1921, the Evening Star reported that "immediate provision for the construction of an archive building...to house...valuable government records...has been recommended to the public buildings commission by Lt. Col. Clarence O. Sherrill*."
These government records, according to the Star, are now being stored in various parts of the District of Columbia and some are located where the danger of fire is great.
Sherrill also recommends the construction of buildings for the purposes of the general accounting office and the bureau of internal revenue.
JFK+50 NOTE
The National Archives Building, located at 700 Pennsylvania Ave, NW in the Nation's Capital, opened in 1935. It was designed by John Russell Pope who envisioned it as "a temple of history." NAB is the home of original copies of the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights.
*Clarence Osborne Sherrill (1876-1959) born in Newton, N.C. & graduated from United States Military Academy, 1901, served in WWI, was Director of the Office of Public Buildings & Grounds, 1921-1925 & chief military adviser to Presidents Harding & Coolidge.
SOURCES
"Archives Building First Need Here, Sherrill Advises," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1921, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
"Clarence Osborne Sherrill," U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, www.cfa.gov/
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