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This week the U. S. Government got a present: the largest marble building in the world. The building was the National Gallery of Art. The two creators of the building were not present at its formal opening : they were both dead - Donor Andrew W. Mellon, onetime Secretary of the Treasury, and Architect John Russell Pope. The building alone cost $15,000,000; the art masterpieces that went with it were valued at $50,000,000. The Gallery, which spread its great, windowless length 782 ft. along Constitution Avenue, diagonally opposite the Smithsonian Institution, had a massive rotunda patterned after...
This week a crowd of 8,000 people poured through the pillared rotunda and milled through the vaulted halls. In the name of the nation, President Roosevelt accepted the museum from Paul Mellon, son of Andrew...
...Collector Mellon's $50,000,000 worth of pictures and sculptures, 5-io-25-cent Storeman Samuel Henry Kress two years ago had added another $30,000,000 worth...
Biggest contribution ever made to a government by a private individual, Andrew Mellon's marble treasure house might well grow some day into one of the world's greatest national museums...
...Andrew W. Mellon...