Sep
06

Today in Smithsonian History: September 6, 1958

The site east of the Air and Space Museum reserved for the Smithsonian, as featured in the Torch, September 1975.

The site on the National Mall east of the National Air and Space Museum reserved for Smithsonian Institution public purposes. (Photo by Richard Farrar, as featured in the Torch, September 1975)

September 6, 1958  President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Public Law 85-935 authorizing plans for the construction of a National Air Museum to be located on the site bounded by Fourth and Seventh Streets, Independence Avenue, and Jefferson Drive SW, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives

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