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President barack obama, former first lady laura bush, congressman john lewis, governor sam brownbeck, mayor vincent gray, the smithsonian and the museums leadership, broke ground right here on this spot for this museum, the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Today, as you can see the building is nearing completion, and in the next ten months, well finish the interior, install the exhibits, and by september 2016, open the doors to welcome the public. Today, we mark a mileston...

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Our earliest cottages were ‘wattle and daub’ – battens with mud – roofed with timber shingles and canvas. Unsecure and weather-frail the settlers pined for the qualities of homes left behind: solid brick walls with slate roofs, and they set about obtaining it. However, the desire for a ‘solid home’ met with difficulties for first settlers. Having exhausted the cabbage tree palms, they found the Angophoras and Eucalypts too tough for their 18th C English axes.

Jackson finds that Freeland’s history holds up in the hindsight of more rigorous research, although she claims it mentions too few architects, which Jackson sets to ‘writes’ by name checking every architect with a significant building in Australia in the last 230 years.