As a part of the celebration of the reopening of this wing, organist Alexander Frey carried out four sold-out recitals of music of France in a single weekend in the French Gallery. The museum stands on the former site of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, where in 1881 a disgruntled workplace seeker, Charles Guiteau, shot President James Garfield (see James A. Garfield assassination). The station was demolished in 1908 as a result of it didn’t conform to the McMillan Plan for the Mall. In 1918, temporary warfare buildings had been constructed on the positioning; these were demolished by 1921…
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