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Happy Birthday to Transamerica Pyramid architect William Pereira, born today in 1909

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A few presidential paper models to celebrate a miniature Presidents Day

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Happy Birthday Abe Lincoln! Lincoln's portrait has been on the front of the penny since 1909, but the Lincoln Memorial was added to the back today in 1959

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Celebrate National Illinois Day by building a free model of the former State of Illinois Building

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Ethics of the trees. 1921. Frontispiece.

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Today's 5¢ trivia: the tiny portrait of Monticello has been on the back of the nickel for 85 years today!

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George Washington laid the cornerstone for the U.S. Capitol after a grand Masonic procession and ceremony 230 years ago today

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60 years ago today nearly a quarter-million demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, culminating in Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech

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Coit Tower's namesake Lillie Hitchcock Coit was born today in 1843. Famous for her eccentric habits and support of San Francisco's firefighters, she bequested one-third of her estate after her death in 1929 to to beautify the city, which funded this elegant art deco tower atop Telegraph Hill

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Marino Auriti with the Encyclopedic Palace, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, 1950s.

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For National Lighthouse Day, here's the Chicago Harbor Light with railings and windows you can print on a transparency to add more realistic detail. Place an LED in the top to flash in time with the real light house!

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Happy Birthday to Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz, architect of One Times Square, born 170 years ago today in New York. Here's our free model of the original building as designed by Eidlitz in 1903, and the current version after its terracotta exterior was replaced in the 1960s http://www.buildyourownnewyork.com/free.html

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Happy Birthday to architect Bertrand Goldberg, born in Chicago 110 years ago today! Print and build your own Prentice Hospital paper model

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A visit to tiny Toronto, a scale model city located in city hall (white building amidst brown)

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Frank Halmans (Dutch 1963)

Vacuum cleaner flat (2007)

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135 years ago today, the Republican National Convention opened in the unfinished Auditorium Theater – with a tent for a roof – nominating Indiana Senator Benjamin Harrison for president

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Happy birthday to Space Needle architect John Graham Jr., born today in 1908. A designer primarily of shopping malls, he passed away in 1991

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