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A Restoration Completed: APhA Headquarters
A Restoration Completed:
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ow complete is the restoration of the American Institute ofPharmacy, headquarters of the American Pharmaceutical Association. The project included restoration of the building's rotunda to its original decor and renovation of its impressive front entrance for daily use. The APhA headquarters building was launched by an all-pharmacy fund raising campaign in the 1920s, authorized by an act of Congress in 1932, designed by noted architect John Russell Pope, and constructed 1932-33. Today the American Institute of Pharmacy stands as the only nongovernment building on imposing Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The building was dedicated on May 9, 1934, with these words by then APhA President Robert L. Swain (1887-1963): This building becomes a symbol of a profession devoted to the eradication of disease, and to the betterment of 26
the conditions under which we live. It symbolizes the countless ages through wh1ch phannacy has trudged side by side with man as he pulled himself along the highways of the past. It symbolizes the tenets of professional doctrines which have demanded higher and ever higher standards for drugs and medicines. It symbolizes the quiet faith of the research worker as he crystallizes his imagination and creative skill into new products for the alleviation of pain. It symbolizes the determination and patience of the pharmaceutiGal educator as he pours out his life in training others for their great responsibilities. It symbolizes the obligation of pharmacy as it bends to the task of conserving and improving the public health. It is a symbol that pharmacy will be as true to the future as it has been to the past.
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'The. renovation of the American Institute of Pharmacy is living proof of the commitment that APhA has made to effectively move the profession of pharmacy into the 21st century.' - -C harles R. Green Chairman, 1988
John Russell Pope: An Architect of Landmarks
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rchitectural students from far and wide visit APhA headquarters to study the work of a master of classical architecture - John Russell Pope. In Pope (1874-1937), APhA found an architect ideally suited to design a building befitting its unique location among the great landmarks of our nation's capital. Son of an English immigrant and a native of New York City, John Russell Pope graduated from Columbia University in 1894. He subsequently graduated in 1900 from Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and went into private practice in New York City where over the next several decades he designed many critically hailed buildings in the United States-and Europe. Among the outstanding examples of his architectural genius are the National Gallery of Art (built to house the Andrew Mellon art collection), the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives building, and Constitution Hall (all in Washington, DC); the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; and the Tate Gallery in London. He also designed general plans for future development of a number of American universities including Yale and Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth College. Among Pope's honors were appointment by President Wilson and by President Harding to the National Commission on Fine Arts, and by President Hoover to the National Board of Consulting Architects. John Russell Pope was dubbed "the last of the Romans" because of his affinity for the simplicity and proportion that characterized the best classical Roman architecture. The American Institute of Pharmacy embodies these same characteristics.
Later additions included the William Procter Jr. memorial in the rotunda unveiled on May 3, 1941; the memorial flagstaff dedicated on May 7, 1948, "to all pharmacists who served in the wars of our country;'' and an addition to the building that was opened August 18, 1960. In 1984, restoration was begun. Returned to its original decor was Pope's magnificent rotunda, which one noted architect described as "one of the most impressive interior spaces characterizing Washington's best institutional architecture, benefiting from generous spatial proportions and very refined materials and craftsmanship. It is equaled only by the rotundas in the National Gallery of Art and the Jefferson Memorial."
'I had the luxury ofwitnessing the actual opening ofthe front doors after much of the planning had been completed. As I was one ofthe first to enter the American Institute ofPharmacy through those reopened front doors, I was one of the first to experience that grand feeling.' D. Stephen Crawford Chairman, 1987
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'The American Institute of Pharmacy with its magnificent rotunda, its giant bronze doors open to the Lincoln Memorial, and its presence as the only nongovernment building on ConstitutienAvenue, is both a symbol ofthe rich history and the bright future of the proud profession of pharmacy.' -James A. Main Chairman, 1985-86
Following completion of work on the rotunda, the APhA Board of Trustees authorized a project in 1986 to reopen the front doors of Pope's classical building, closed since 1960 when the new addition to APhA headquarters was completed. Restoring the front entrance to daily use included several steps: • Glass front doors with polished brass fittings were installed so that when the bronze front doors are open, the Lincoln Memorial can be seen from the APhA rotunda, and from the outside one can see the lovely rotunda; • Pedestrian traffic was rerouted from the existing parking lots to "one ofWashington's grandest entrances;" • The front steps were repaired, general landscaping was modified, walkways were lighted, and ornamental lighting was added to illuminate the building at night similar to other monuments in the nation's capital; • The APhA reception desk was relocated . . to the front entry vestibule; • A new sign with ornamental lighting was placed in front of the building. At the .1986 APhA Annual Meeting,. APhA President John F. Schlegel observed that: .
The opening of those doors symbolizes the new desire for the Association to draw in, on a routine· and continuing basis, the know ledge and experience of our many thousands of member-s throughout the country __:__ the men and women who, in the aggregate, are known as the "pharmacy profession." And those doors also symbolize the pledge to send our information and our people back through those doors and out to the states and communities where the action is ... where pharmacy services are provided and where the history of the pharmacy profession is being written every day. Pharmacists everywhere can be proud of APhA's renovated headquarters and its purpose, expressed in words engraved above the entrance: DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND ENDEAVOR TO THE · PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC H.E ALTH AND TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN PHARMACY ®
'The manner in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the American Institute of Pharmacy on August 1, 1984, exemplifies APhP:s openness to both the profession and to the public.' - Herbert S. Carlin Chairman, 1984
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APhA Headquarters N
ow complete is the restoration of the American Institute ofPharmacy, headquarters of the American Pharmaceutical Association. The project included restoration of the building's rotunda to its original decor and renovation of its impressive front entrance for daily use. The APhA headquarters building was launched by an all-pharmacy fund raising campaign in the 1920s, authorized by an act of Congress in 1932, designed by noted architect John Russell Pope, and constructed 1932-33. Today the American Institute of Pharmacy stands as the only nongovernment building on imposing Constitution Avenue in Washington, DC. The building was dedicated on May 9, 1934, with these words by then APhA President Robert L. Swain (1887-1963): This building becomes a symbol of a profession devoted to the eradication of disease, and to the betterment of 26
the conditions under which we live. It symbolizes the countless ages through wh1ch phannacy has trudged side by side with man as he pulled himself along the highways of the past. It symbolizes the tenets of professional doctrines which have demanded higher and ever higher standards for drugs and medicines. It symbolizes the quiet faith of the research worker as he crystallizes his imagination and creative skill into new products for the alleviation of pain. It symbolizes the determination and patience of the pharmaceutiGal educator as he pours out his life in training others for their great responsibilities. It symbolizes the obligation of pharmacy as it bends to the task of conserving and improving the public health. It is a symbol that pharmacy will be as true to the future as it has been to the past.
American Pharmacy, Vol. NS28, No. 9 September 1988/570
'The. renovation of the American Institute of Pharmacy is living proof of the commitment that APhA has made to effectively move the profession of pharmacy into the 21st century.' - -C harles R. Green Chairman, 1988
John Russell Pope: An Architect of Landmarks
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rchitectural students from far and wide visit APhA headquarters to study the work of a master of classical architecture - John Russell Pope. In Pope (1874-1937), APhA found an architect ideally suited to design a building befitting its unique location among the great landmarks of our nation's capital. Son of an English immigrant and a native of New York City, John Russell Pope graduated from Columbia University in 1894. He subsequently graduated in 1900 from Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and went into private practice in New York City where over the next several decades he designed many critically hailed buildings in the United States-and Europe. Among the outstanding examples of his architectural genius are the National Gallery of Art (built to house the Andrew Mellon art collection), the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the National Archives building, and Constitution Hall (all in Washington, DC); the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; and the Tate Gallery in London. He also designed general plans for future development of a number of American universities including Yale and Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth College. Among Pope's honors were appointment by President Wilson and by President Harding to the National Commission on Fine Arts, and by President Hoover to the National Board of Consulting Architects. John Russell Pope was dubbed "the last of the Romans" because of his affinity for the simplicity and proportion that characterized the best classical Roman architecture. The American Institute of Pharmacy embodies these same characteristics.
Later additions included the William Procter Jr. memorial in the rotunda unveiled on May 3, 1941; the memorial flagstaff dedicated on May 7, 1948, "to all pharmacists who served in the wars of our country;'' and an addition to the building that was opened August 18, 1960. In 1984, restoration was begun. Returned to its original decor was Pope's magnificent rotunda, which one noted architect described as "one of the most impressive interior spaces characterizing Washington's best institutional architecture, benefiting from generous spatial proportions and very refined materials and craftsmanship. It is equaled only by the rotundas in the National Gallery of Art and the Jefferson Memorial."
'I had the luxury ofwitnessing the actual opening ofthe front doors after much of the planning had been completed. As I was one ofthe first to enter the American Institute ofPharmacy through those reopened front doors, I was one of the first to experience that grand feeling.' D. Stephen Crawford Chairman, 1987
American Pharmacy, Vol. NS28, No.9 September 1988/571
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'The American Institute of Pharmacy with its magnificent rotunda, its giant bronze doors open to the Lincoln Memorial, and its presence as the only nongovernment building on ConstitutienAvenue, is both a symbol ofthe rich history and the bright future of the proud profession of pharmacy.' -James A. Main Chairman, 1985-86
Following completion of work on the rotunda, the APhA Board of Trustees authorized a project in 1986 to reopen the front doors of Pope's classical building, closed since 1960 when the new addition to APhA headquarters was completed. Restoring the front entrance to daily use included several steps: • Glass front doors with polished brass fittings were installed so that when the bronze front doors are open, the Lincoln Memorial can be seen from the APhA rotunda, and from the outside one can see the lovely rotunda; • Pedestrian traffic was rerouted from the existing parking lots to "one ofWashington's grandest entrances;" • The front steps were repaired, general landscaping was modified, walkways were lighted, and ornamental lighting was added to illuminate the building at night similar to other monuments in the nation's capital; • The APhA reception desk was relocated . . to the front entry vestibule; • A new sign with ornamental lighting was placed in front of the building. At the .1986 APhA Annual Meeting,. APhA President John F. Schlegel observed that: .
The opening of those doors symbolizes the new desire for the Association to draw in, on a routine· and continuing basis, the know ledge and experience of our many thousands of member-s throughout the country __:__ the men and women who, in the aggregate, are known as the "pharmacy profession." And those doors also symbolize the pledge to send our information and our people back through those doors and out to the states and communities where the action is ... where pharmacy services are provided and where the history of the pharmacy profession is being written every day. Pharmacists everywhere can be proud of APhA's renovated headquarters and its purpose, expressed in words engraved above the entrance: DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE CONTRIBUTED THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND ENDEAVOR TO THE · PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC H.E ALTH AND TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN PHARMACY ®
'The manner in which we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the American Institute of Pharmacy on August 1, 1984, exemplifies APhP:s openness to both the profession and to the public.' - Herbert S. Carlin Chairman, 1984
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