Pension Building, 1918

Washington, D.C., circa 1918. “Pension Office interior.” This former repository of Civil War veterans’ pension records is now the National Building Museum. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

This photograph of the Pension Building was taken in 1918: Woodrow Wilson was President, the influenza pandemic ravaged the globe, and World War I ended.
“Awesome 1918 View Inside the Pension Building,” Ghosts of DC, December 9, 2013

 

“In 1980 an Act of Congress designated the Pension Building as the site of a new museum celebrating American achievements in the building arts. The National Building Museum opened in 1985, the same year the building was designated a National Historic Landmark.”
“Pension Building (National Building Museum), Washington, DC,” U.S. General Services Administration