Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture

The Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture fills an entire city block, defined by its massive scale and rows of thirty-five-foot-tall Corinthian columns that evoke the Greek Parthenon. This historic structure, built in phases between eighteen thirty-six and eighteen sixty-eight, served for decades as the United States Patent Office, where inventors once submitted scale models of their creations.