We attended the annual Smithsonian Craft Show over the weekend, held in the National Building Museum, built in 1887 and which used to be known as the Pension Building after the Civil War. It is now an architectural museum and also hosts an inaugural ball every four years.

This is a frieze sculpted by Caspar Buberi stretching around the exterior of the enormous building and depicting Civil War soldiers in scenes somewhat reminiscent of those on Trajan’s Column as well as the Horseman Frieze of the Parthenon.

National Building Museum, posted earlier: