3.06 (V) [FUN] Video - Topic 2. Treasury Building Restoration 3.06 (V) [EĞLENCE] Video - Konu 2. Hazine Binası Restorasyonu

the Greek Revival building housing the United States Department of the Treasury was built between 1836 and 1869 and is located beside the White House at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue American history TV visited the Treasury Building and its historic offices to learn about a long-term restoration project in this first of a two-part program Treasury Department curator Richard Cote leads us through the cache room the salmon chase suite and the President Andrew Johnson suite you are with the curator of the Treasury Department at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue adjacent to the White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue the Treasury Department is a National Historic Landmark constructed over a period of time during the 19th century our East Wing our 15th Street side of the building was constructed between 1836 and 1842 by the American architect Robert Mills it was followed by the construction of our south wing completed in 1860 our West Wing completed in 1864 and the north wing where we have the cash room completed in 1869 you will be touring the building looking at past and present the present office of the secretaries of the Treasury this includes the office of the Honorable salmon P chase Andrew Johnson and our present secretary Secretary Timothy Geithner x' office the Treasury Building is a as a National Historic Landmark has been restored over a period of time the office of the curator was set up by secretary James Baker in 1986 and secretary Baker came to a Treasury Building that through the layers of time and age was not necessarily in the best shape yet Baker saw within Treasury building very very important spaces not only the cash a marble hall which through the ages had suffered some abuse but also offices that had history the history of the offices was actually first recognized by another secretary secretary Andrew Mellon he would go on essentially with his collection of artwork to form and find the National Gallery of Art Mellon had one of his assistant secretaries collect furnishings from the building that were associated with Andrew Johnson's occupation of the Treasury building and actually did a very early restoration if you will of that particular space since the office of the curator was established we were able to restore secretaries former secretaries offices in the cases of Sam and chase it was his occupancy in 1860 in a case of Johnson it was his the occupation of the president in 1865 following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln those spaces you will see in doing our restoration activities were assisted by the Treasury Historic Association a nonprofit group who raises funds for efforts and also previously by the committee for the preservation of the Treasury Building that particular committee was the group that essentially spearheaded the restoration of the cache room by restoration in the cache room I'm referring now to this rather grand space that was completed in 1869 the site of the inaugural ball of ulysses s grant but also a room that was to function as a banking space following the inaugural ball teller cages were put into the room and at that point until 1975 it functioned as a banking hall and until 1975 you could walk into this room and redeem any government draft for cash by a government draft I also mean currency the Treasury Department through the Bureau of Engraving and printing prints currency you could come in with your currency and whatever the currency backing of the particular currency the standard backing the currency at that time you could receive that for your bills whether it was the gold standard you would receive gold or silver standard in 1975 the room was essentially closed and it was not until 1986 that the office of the curator at that point being established started the restoration of the cash room the restoration of the cash room extended over a period of years their restoration involved the replication of chandeliers based on photographs that we had of the space the restoration of the balustrade and as recently as 2005 the restoration of the cash room ceiling through the generosity of the Treasury Historic Association the cash room ceiling has a very very richly gilt base the individual shells and the egg and dart motif have a gold gilding that was put in by supervising architect Alfred mullet when the room was completed in 1869