John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an architect whose firm is widely known for designing of the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art (completed in 1941) in Washington, DC. Pope was born in New York in 1874, the son of a successful portrait painter. He studied architecture at Columbia Universit... More

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  • Apr 24, 1874

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  • Aug 27, 1937 (age 63 years)

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  • 1894
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  • 1937
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