Being the only museum to honor American architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering and design the National Building Museum is housed in a structure that fits its purpose,designed to look like the nations capital. being built in 1887 this building was built to house the pension bureau. The pension bureau issued money to the families and ex civil war veterans. The building was designed by General Montgomery C. Meigs a Quartermaster who had lost his own son in the Civil War. Some people even consider the building the Vietnam Memorial of the Civil War. Inside the circular shaped top depictions of all the areas of the Union Army. The men are depicted as carvings in the wall. Each area is represented From the cavalry and Infantry to the Medics and Quartermasters. In 1960 the building was threatened with being demolished but citizen action kept the building around.
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