Indiana Jones............Harrison Ford...........also, in a psychological murder thriller,,,,,,,,Presumed Innocent..............and a movie about the Indians of Nicaragua's Miskito coast.......with River Phoenix..........he was Hans Solo for Star Wars...............anyways...........Indiana ave..........runs just East of the Navy memorial..........across the street from the archives,.........National Treasure, with Nick Cage................................Indiana Jones................the Naval Attache for Argentina is really close ot Indiana Ave...............it is on the South side, on Penn ave...........Starbucks is across the street, in some older, rustic, Victorian looking building,,,,,,,,,,on 7th street, nw, Wash Dc.....Illuminati way as i call it...........Starbucks is just north of Indian ave........Penn is just south of that............Starbucks.......of Seattle, Washington.......................with a symbol of a woman of the sea........my 2nd wife told me the coffee from El Salvador mainly goes to Starbucks...............coffee is El Salvador's #1 export.......................this is all so very, freaking odd..................

The West Building was designed in a classicizing style but built using the most modern technology of the time. Its exterior was constructed of pale pink Tennessee marble, while its foundations and first floor were formed of concrete with a steel framework. Polished limestone from Indiana and Alabama covers the walls on its main floor, and the Rotunda columns were fabricated in Vermont from Italian marble. The architect recognized the importance of natural light to illuminate and unite the exhibition spaces. To achieve this, he specified that skylights should cover virtually the entire three-acre roof.

Because Mellon believed that visitors should learn from as well as enjoy the art in the collection, works are exhibited by period and national origin in appropriately decorated galleries. The Italian Renaissance galleries, for instance, have Italian travertine wainscot and hand-finished plaster walls and are detailed with base and door surround moldings and include built-in niches to display sculpture, while Dutch 17th-century galleries are finished with wood paneling to evoke original settings.

Andrew Mellon and John Russell Pope died within 24 hours of each other in August 1937, not long after excavation for the West Building’s foundations had begun, but the museum was built in accordance with their concepts. Construction was completed by December 1940, and works of art were installed in the new galleries over the following months. The National Gallery of Art was dedicated on March 17, 1941, with Paul Mellon presenting the museum on behalf of his father, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepting the gift for the nation.