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bursed for losses and extra charges incurred. Apparently, the work was "so forwarded" by the original contractors, and on 9 November Colonel Wilson formally transferred the building to Surgeon General Moore.

From November 1887 until 15 February 1888, the Museum was in the process of moving into the new building. The process was somewhat complicated by the fact that the display cases were found to be a little too high to go through the doors and had to be taken through a large window on the front end of the second-floor Museum Hall.

In copy prepared by or for Colonel Billings for use in a guidebook which was never issued, the building is described as "exceedingly plain, without ornamentation," while to Major Smart is was "severely simple in style." To a lady writing for Godey's magazine in 1898, the building was a "plain red brick structure." The profusion of brick and terra cotta embellishment on the ex