NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM

2011 Annual Report 1 Annual Report 2011

Message from the Chair and the Executive Director

he National Building Museum reached an exciting milestone during fiscal year 2011 (October 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011), attracting more than half a million annual visitors for the T first time in its history. In fact, we dramatically surpassed that benchmark, with attendance of 581,421 people. There was a pleasant and consistent hum throughout the Museum as steady crowds came to enjoy our exhibitions, educational programs, and special events. The Museum’s Great Hall. Photo by Kevin Allen The excellent attendance figures were especially encouraging in the context of the Museum’s decision to begin charging a modest admission fee for exhibitions during the summer of 2011. Although entrance to the building—including the Museum Shop, café, and historic building tours—is still free, we now charge $8 for adults and $5 for children, students, and seniors to visit our exhibitions. This fee was implemented as a result of the ongoing economic challenges that many cultural institutions are facing, including cutbacks in government funding. For instance, although the Museum is a private, nonprofit entity, it has long received a significant grant through the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs program. This federal program was established to provide crucial operating support to qualifying cultural organizations in the nation’s capital. The program still exists, but funding levels were dramatically reduced in 2011. Combined with diminishing support from other traditional areas of giving, the Museum experienced a sudden and substantial reduction in projected funding midway into our fiscal year. The admission fee helped to offset these reduced revenues. The implementation of the new admissions policy went smoothly, and so far, visitors have reacted positively.

During this past year, the Museum also adopted a new strategic plan, which has served as a valuable guide, helping us to assess our priorities and maximize our resources at a time when all cultural institutions face fund raising challenges. The section headings below reflect the key content areas we identified as priorities in the plan. This report provides an overview of the Museum’s myriad activities and achievements and serves as a vehicle for thanking the many individuals, corporations, associations, and agencies that make our work possible.

Recognizing Design Achievement and Innovation

pening in October 2010, Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s was the first comprehensive exhibition about the architecture and design of the six world’s fairs held O in the U.S. during the Great Depression. Featuring a stunning array of photographs, models, memorabilia, and even a replica of a working robot that was a star attraction of one of the fairs, Designing Tomorrow revealed how these events introduced modernism to American audiences while also helping to shape uniquely American interpretations of the movement. The exhibition catalogue is available through the Museum Shop.

On a scavenger hunt of the Museum’s building, students identify shapes and patterns by examining the walls, floors, and ceiling of the Museum during the Patterns school program. Photo by Kevin Allen 2 National Building Museum

Adele Chatfield-Taylor receives the Twelfth Vincent Scully Prize and delivers a presentation to an audience filling the Great Hall. Photo by Anne McDonough

In March 2011, the Museum opened Walls Speak: Students join a work crew, become The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière, organized by the carpenters, and use power Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure screwdrivers as they assemble University. Meière was a talented muralist and mosaicist an 8’ x 11’ house during the Be a who collaborated with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Green Builder school program. other prominent architects of the early to mid-20th century. Photo by Kevin Allen Her works were not only beautiful, but also noteworthy as integral architectural elements of significant buildings such as the Nebraska State Capitol and the National Academy of Sciences headquarters in Washington, D.C.

The Museum continued its popular Spotlight on Design lecture series, which attracts talented designers to speak about their work. Esteemed architects Peter Bohlin and Cesar Pelli, the up-and-coming Spanish firm of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, and landscape architect Andrea Cochran were some of 2011’s presenters. The series is sponsored by Lafarge, with additional support from the American Institute of Architects and media sponsor Architectural Record.

Other public programs in fiscal year 2011 included the annual Women of Architecture program, presented in collaboration with the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, which featured New York architect Annabelle Selldorf. The Museum also continued its popular Architecture 101 lecture series, which introduces the general public to key movements and figures in architec- tural history. During the summer of 2011, lecturers discussed “The Glass Box,” “Gothic Revival,” and “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Prairie Style.”

Each year, the Museum presents several prominent awards to individuals, companies, and organizations that have had a positive impact on the built environment. We presented the 12th Vincent Scully Prize to Adele Chatfield-Taylor, president of the American Academy in Rome, for her efforts to encourage excellence in design, planning, and preservation. We awarded the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology to Caterpillar Inc. for its incorporation of advanced technologies that facilitate efficient, high-quality construction. In a departure from tradition, the annual Honor Award gala was organized not around a single honoree or small group, but as a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the award, with many past recipients in attendance.

Advancing the Cause of Sustainability

he National Building Museum has long been at the forefront of the sustainability movement. In 2011, that leadership continued via the Intelligent Cities initiative, a project in partnership with T TIME and IBM and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. This initiative explores the intersection of information technology and urban design, with the goal of making cities more livable, attractive, and sustainable. A major public event of the initiative was the Intelligent Cities Forum, held at the Museum on June 6, 2011, and simultaneously broadcast online. Drawing on data gleaned from public responses to infographics developed by the Museum and published in TIME, the program addressed the implications of information technology for the design of communities at various scales. One of our curators edited a book based on the forum and incorporating original essays, which was published in early fiscal year 2012. 3 Annual Report 2011

Festival attendees discover the science behind popcorn at Discover Engineering Family Day. Photo by Kevin Allen

The Museum continued to offer several lecture series devoted to sustainability and related topics, including For the Greener Good, presented with The Home Depot Foundation; the Smart Growth series, presented in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and Building in the 21st Century, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Museum launched its new Green Community national curriculum kit this fiscal year, introducing students in grades 5 through 8 to issues in urban design, conceived from an environmentally conscious perspective.

Increasing Awareness and Understanding of the Built Environment

e opened the exhibition LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition in 2010, and it proved to be so popular that we extended it into W2012. This educational and highly interactive exhibition has Panelists explore the links between significantly boosted the Museum’s family attendance. While providing a unique learning environment environmental sustainability and design, for youngsters, it also engages adults through impressive, large-scale models of famous buildings public health, energy policy, bioscience, around the world. The LEGO® show complements the ongoing Building Zone interactive exhibition for infrastructure, and education during younger children. For the Greener Good. Photo by Kevin Allen Families flocked to the Museum’s three major festivals during fiscal year 2011: the Big Build: A Hands-on Festival of Tools, Trucks, and Building Arts (formerly known as the Festival of the Building Arts), Discover Engineering Family Day, and National Cherry Blossom Festival Family Day. These three events drew a total of more than 28,000 visitors. In addition, the fifth annual National Building Museum Summer Camp, which gives children entering grades 3-5 opportunities to develop their creativity through various design challenges, drew record attendance.

The Museum strives to attract and engage diverse constituencies. In fiscal year 2011, we launched a redesigned www.nbm.org, which is the Museum’s most significant form of communication, to improve the Museum’s branding and reflect its commitment to design excellence. The Museum’s website has been accessed 2 million times in FY11.

Press coverage in outlets ranging from USA Today to the BBC helped publicize the Museum’s programming. The Museum also benefited from $348,000 in advertising through partnerships with media organizations and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro trains and buses).

Visitors examine the Transamerica Pyramid and St. Louis Arch in the LEGO® Architecture: Towering Ambition exhibition. Photo by Kevin Allen 4 National Building Museum

CityVision students investigate the NoMa neighborhood in Washington, D.C. The program aims for students to identify needs and propose solutions designed to help local neighborhoods. Photo by Museum staff

Illuminating and Interpreting the Unique Built Environment of Washington, D.C.

lthough the Museum’s mission is national—indeed, international—in scope, the institution is firmly rooted in Washington, D.C., and remains committed to issues of importance to the A metropolitan region. The long-term exhibition Washington: Symbol and City, for instance, explores the planning, design, and development of Washington as a global capital and as a community with its own unique identity and physical culture.

Many of the Museum’s public programs, while dealing with broad topics in planning and urbanism, serve as platforms for discussion of local concerns. The 2011 Charles Atherton Memorial Lecture, for example, featured Danish architect and author Jan Gehl, who spoke about his ideas for making American cities more walkable and sustainable, while drawing specific lessons for Washington. In addition, historian and critic Wytold Rybczynski lectured about the history of city planning in a way that directly informed our understanding of the capital’s evolution.

The Museum’s acclaimed outreach programs for teens, including CityVision and the Design Apprentice Program, use Washington as a laboratory for explorations in community engagement. In July 2011, we opened an exhibition organized by the students participating in the Investigating Where We Live program in which they presented their photographs, writing, and artworks interpreting the built environment of the H Street Corridor and the neighborhoods of Bloomingdale and Mount Pleasant.

Gratitude

he National Building Museum remains a vibrant and influential force for advancing the quality of the built environment. Despite ongoing T challenges arising from a difficult economy, we have achieved a great deal over the past year. More than 580,000 visitors came through our doors—they learned, they exchanged ideas, and they were entertained. We are proud that the Museum consistently ranks among the favorite Washington cultural destinations of locals and out-of-towners alike.

Design Apprenticeship Program We thank all of our members, fellow trustees, donors, institutional partners, volunteers, staff, and participants work together to others whose support is so vital to the success of the National Building Museum. We look forward to measure and cut materials your continuing involvement in fiscal year 2012 and beyond. for large-scale prototypes. Photo by Museum staff

Michael J. Glosserman Chase W. Rynd Chair President and Executive Drector 5 Annual Report 2011

Trustees, Volunteers, Interns, and Staff

The National Building General Counsel The Honorable G. Wayne Volunteers Dene Garbow Museum values diversity Clough Jim Garcia in the workplace and is an Gilbert E. Delorme, Esq. Secretary of the Gloria Allen Adrienne Gayoso Equal Opportunity Employer. Greenstein DeLorme & Smithsonian Institution Kael Anderson Reema Ghazi Luchs, P.C. Joyce Arsnow Ed Giefer Former board members and The Honorable Shaun Elwin Aspegren Bobby Gladstein staff who served during the Honorary Trustees Donovan Anna Aspesi David Godfrey fiscal year 2011 are Secretary, U.S. Department Susan Bairstow Carolyn Gold noted in italics. Harold L. Adams of Housing and Urban Thomas Ballentine Judith Goldberg Thomas N. Armstrong, III Development Alison Barr Luis Gonzalez Trustees Howard M. Bender Martha Barroso Abelardo Gonzalez-Aviles Carolyn Schwenker Brody The Honorable David Ferriero Catherine Barry James Graham Jeffrey S. Abramson Dennis J. Cotter Archivist of the United States Darcy Bender Alice Haddix William B. Alsup, III David C. Evans Jordan Benderly Catherine Hailey Frank Anton M. Arthur Gensler, Jr. The Honorable Vincent Gray Tiffanie Bernard Inga Hailstorks Joan Baggett-Calambokidis Mike Goodrich Mayor of the District of Jennifer Bertsch Gareth Hall David S. Bender Thomas J. Klutznick Columbia Emily Billheimer Rachel Hall Greg Bentley Fredrick A. Kober Amy Bishton Ryan Hall Deborah Berke Stuart A. McFarland Robert Ivy James Biss John Hanley Kelly Caffarelli Elizabeth Moynihan Executive vice president and Anita Bizzotto Elizabeth Hannold Donald A. Capoccia Marilyn Perry CEO, The American Kristi Bleakley Tomi Harman William M. Collins Robert A. M. Stern Institute of Architects Carolyn Bridwell Alice Harris James Davis James W. Todd Stefanie Brown Neche Harris Todd C. DeGarmo Mallory Walker The Honorable Martha Aaron Brunscheen Raymond Hayhurst Gilbert E. Delorme, Leonard A. Zax Johnson Andrea Bryan Judy Hecht General Counsel Administrator, U.S. General Sarah Buffaloe Fred Hecklinger Christopher Dorval Founding Trustees Services Administration Sandra Byrne James Heegeman Andrew C. Florance Joshua Campbell Jennifer Heimbecker Keith Fox Cynthia R. Field Stephanie Meeks Jim Carr Amanda Hickock Sylvain Garnaud Herbert M. Franklin, Esq. President, National Trust for Evelyn Chang Gregory Hiller Michael J. Glosserman, Chair Nancy Stevenson Historic Preservation Emily Childs Lana Hirsch Kenneth M. Grunley Beverly Willis Paul Christy Cheryl Hollins Gary P. Haney The Honorable John Mica Samantha Codario Jayne Hornstein Philip L. Harrison Ex Officio Trustees Chairman, House Theresa Coffman Mark Humbert Robert W. Holleyman, II, Committee on Leonardo Colon Heidi Huntley Treasurer The Honorable Stephen Transportation and Maya Contreras Badonna Hurowitz Diane J. Hoskins Ayers Infrastructure, U.S. House Bob Craycraft Cameron Isaacs A. Eugene Kohn Architect of the Capitol of Representatives Christine Curella Melanie Isis Erv Lauterbach Kevin Cutro Dudley Ives Christopher A. McFadden The Honorable James The Honorable Robert Genevieve Davison Ellen Jacknain Hollis S. McLoughlin Billington A. Peck David Dean Arlova Jackson Edward J. Newberry, The Librarian of Congress Commissioner, U.S. General Laurence Dickter Arthur Jackson Secretary Services Administration Anthony Dimeglio Kristan Jadwick Whayne S. Quin The Honorable Barbara Alicia Dolabaille Carmen Jenkins-Paris Richard Ruben Boxer The Honorable Ken Salazar Lisa Dolinich Mulindi Johnson Chase W. Rynd, President Chairman, Committee on Secretary, U.S. Department Peter Dunn Penny Elizabeth Jones Stephen E. Sandherr Environment and Public of the Interior Bill Eby Maxine Karam Works, U.S. Senate Helen Eichhorn Cheryl Kelly Peter Epton Lloyd Kinch Ed Estes Rose Marie Kirwin Christine Evans Lori Krauss Aysha Faiz Doris Landau Nissane Farah Sherman Landau Mary Feeherry Anne Lange Jill Ferguson Sheri Lanoff Gerrone Florus Son Le Brooke Fossey Nicole Lee Ray Freeny Robert Leonhardt Alan Friedman Sandra Lewis Anna Fujimoto Mei Li Breck Furnas Sally Liff Rich Gallagher Keith Lindbloom Jon Gann Chelsea Lindsey

Guests attending the opening reception for Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s. Photo by Anne McDonough 6 National Building Museum

The Museum is governed by a prestigious and active Board of Trustees, seen here at one of their quarterly meetings. Photo by Museum staff Abigail Lisner Peter Szegedy-Maszak Curatorial Liane Lunden Cecil Talbott Kelly Malloy Amy Tarce Bailey Ball Anthony Margadonna John Telesco Nancy Bateman Anita S. Martin Toussaint Tingling-Clemmons Chrysanthe Broikos Molly McCoy Lou Tonore Shelagh Cole Sarah McGaughy Kim Toufectis Cathy Frankel Riane McWain Carole Toulousy-Michel Hank Griffith Kate Meenan-Waugh Mary Ann Troanovitch Stephanie Hess Liz Meitner Alexandra (Ali) Underhill Sarah Leavitt Kerrie Messelbeck Jaime Van Mourik Deborah Sorensen Katie Michel Raksha Vasudevan Antonya Huntenburg Erma Person Barbara Miller Debra Venable Development Kim Nguyen Claudia Piacente Elizabeth Miller Emily Volz Robert Scott Plummer Crystal Arrigo Mongini Jean Walker Christina Berkemeyer Thomas Ziolkowski Lucy Pope Alexandra Montealegre Deborah Wallower Jessie Cochran Phillip M. Sauve Jackie Moore Rich Walsh Mark Davis Visitor Services Pamela Schaeffer Justin Morgan Rona Walters Michael Dunagan Rosalie Sharp Vikki Morris Kenneth Walton Sophia Greenbaum Charlotte Brown Bridget Sullivan Amanda Murray Lesa Warrick Bethann Kyle Richard Brown Gregory Thompson An Nguyen Tanya Washington-Stern Richard Lukas Misheck Chimaliro Jonathan Wellemeyer Mehrangiz Nikou Jack Wennersten Katherine Miller Kristi Cotner Mary West Fred North Ruth Ellen Wennersten Katherine Potosky Barry Edmunds Jennifer Willett Elspeth Nunn Allison Wertz Christie Senft Ronald Fulwood Evelyn Wilson Shar Taylor Blanca Ornelas Evan Wheeler Carly Shaw Amber Ovitt Kelsey White Prema Winn Kristen Sheldon Museum Teachers Dewayne Parker Mark Wilkerson Matt Small Matthew Parker Kim Williams Education Katie Stanhagen Margaret Bailey Suzette Paulino Portia Williams Jamee Telford Agustin Baldioli John Peterson Lauren Wilson Andrew Costanzo Senem Bas Ria Plè Ryan Winfield Lara Marks Finder Visitor Services Elizabeth Bieber Miriam Polan Elizabeth Yoder Mary Hendrickse Representatives Mary Cameron Kathleen Price Ellen Jacknain Amanda Dowd Interns Adam Raine Paul Killmer Christina Ashford Brigitte Dubois Natalie Rance Patrick Kraich Claire Brindley Julie Eisenband Amira Rasayon Agustin Baldioli Scott Kratz Jessica Carlton Allison Feigen Kelby Rasmussen Sean Bell Joanne Seelig Leonardo Colon Carla Freyvogel Marilyn Reis Caroline Bowman Elizabeth Wilkie Danielle Covatta Mariel Gabet Harriet Reiss Katherine Broadhurst Lauren Wilson Brian Daugherty Amanda Granum Rob Romano Stephanie Dabek Timothy Wright Stephen Ducker Tom Hardej Kathryn Ross Patrick Desmond Nissane Farah Roberta Hertzfeldt Mark Rozario Allison Feigen Marketing and Beverly Fennel Zachary Jones Ellen Ruina Reema Ghazi Communications Mary Fox-Skelton Edward Kessie Kerilyn Russo Kerry Ingram Esa Frazier Jennifer Lane Matthew Satter Tara Owens Carol Abrams Leslie Gentry Bren Larsen Christine Saum Lindsey Pitman Stacy Adamson Allison Godfrey Matthew Lincoln Tara Miller William Sawicki Julia Andrade Rocha Jeff Gustafson Devora Liss Rebecca Schenck John Tawadrous Brett Rodgers Curry Hackett Francine Lubran Wendy Schumacher Brittnee Ulmer Vladimir Zabavskiy Rose Hagood Jasmine Marr Don Schwab Holly Wiencek Lily Feinberg Russell Harris Kelsey McMillan Dianne Schwager Henry Woodward Riziki House Elizabeth Otey Nicole Scordalakes Marissa Zhong Special Events Louise Johnson Erkin Ozberk Ralph Scott Jendayl Johnson-Luck Vinita Phonseya Robert Scott Staff List John Bane Nancy Jones Esther Probst Eric Selbst Chris Frame Emmalee Kearney Gretchen Proctor Seymour Selig Administration Kevin Lamparter Andrew Keener Andres Ringer Amy Selvaggio Kristen King Alexis Robinson Jerry Shapiro Diane Beckham Museum Shop WIlliam Lawrey Julie Schor Leonard Shapiro Laura Leonard Robert Leonhardt Glenn Sewell Heidi Shoemaker Betsy May-Salazar Janae Barber Barry Lustberg Alice Stewart Surrell Silverman Martin Moeller Jonathan Dickerson Angela Magnan Wietske van Erp Taalman Kip Brianne Smith Chase W. Rynd Marcia Diehl Nakita Matthews Susan Wigodner Jennifer Sneed Rebecca Warwick Scott Glasscoe Abbey McClain Sara Zajic Lori Steenhoek Todd Wright Michael Higdon Kelly Messenger Jessica Zullinger Alanna Stewart Candler Hunt Rhonda Pavia 7 Annual Report 2011

Industry Partners

ndustry Partners are the leading institutional supporters of the National Building Museum, providing annual contributions at the $15,000 level and above. Industry Partners sit on the Industry Council for the Built Environment, which engages with I the Museum in dialogue about all aspects of the world we build. The 2011 annual meeting focused on “Performance in the Built Environment: Design, Technology and Resiliency.” The Council was chaired by Greg Bentley, chief executive officer, Bentley Systems, Inc. and Harvey M. Bernstein, vice president, Industry Insights and Alliances, McGraw-Hill Construction.

The Museum is grateful to the following organizations for their leadership gifts in fiscal year 2011:

The American Institute of BFC Partners Grunley Construction International Masonry Oak Ridge Associated Architects Blake Real Estate, Inc. Company, Inc. Institute Universities American Planning Bloomberg Hanley Wood International Union of Patton Boggs LLP Association Brotherhood Bank and Holland & Knight LLP/ Bricklayers & Allied Perkins+Will American Society of Trust Whayne S. Quin Craftworkers Skidmore, Owings Landscape Architects Cassidy Turley The Home Depot The JBG Companies & Merrill LLP Andersen Corporate Clark Construction Group, Foundation Lafarge STUDIOS Architecture Foundation LLC International Brotherhood MASCO Corporation The Tower Companies ASSA ABLOY CoStar Group, Inc. of Boilermakers, Ship Foundation Turner Construction The Associated General James G. Davis Builders, Forgers, McGraw-Hill Companies/ Company Contractors of America Construction Corporation & Helpers McGraw-Hill Construction United Technologies Bentley Systems, Inc. Forest City Washington National Association of Corporation Home Builders The Vinyl Institute ZGF Architects LLP Donors

s a private, nonprofit institution, the National Building Museum relies on the generous support of its donors to realize its mission. In fiscal year 2011, the Museum raised a combined total of $6,165,910 in cash, pledges, and contributed A income from individuals, foundations, corporations, associations, and government entities. This support took a variety of forms including grants, sponsorships, memberships, volunteer hours, and visitor donations. The Museum’s Board of Trustees and staff are grateful to all who provided the financial support that enables the Museum to raise awareness of and appreciation for the built environment.

The following donors made gifts of $250 or more during the 2011 fiscal year (October 1, 2010 through September 30, 2011). While space limitations do not permit listing gifts of less than this amount, the Museum extends its sincere thanks to all donors.

* The donor’s total giving includes contributed goods and services $250,000 and above $50,000-$99,999

The Home Depot Foundation Clark Construction Group, LLC The John D. and Catherine T. CoStar Group, Inc. MacArthur Foundation D.C. Commission on the Arts & McGraw-Hill Companies/ Humanities McGraw-Hill Construction* Michael and Marilyn Glosserman National Endowment for National Cherry Blossom the Humanities Festival, Inc.* TIME Perkins+Will United Technologies Corporation $100,000-$249,999 $25,000-$49,999 Institute of Museum and Library Services The American Institute of Lafarge Architects* National Capital Arts and Cultural American Planning Association* Affairs Program The Associated General Rockefeller Foundation Contractors of America*

Corinthian Holiday Party Photo by Anne McDonough 8 National Building Museum

Bentley Systems, Inc. $5,000-$9,999 Cooper Carry J. Ford Huffman* Jonathan Dagle and BFC Partners Design Squad Nation* THE IDI GROUP COMPANIES Cynthia Stuebner Bloomberg Dr. Tina Alster and the Honorable Lois and Richard England International Union of Painters & Domaform The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Paul Frazer* Fentress Architects Allied Trades Ginny Dyson Foundation Anonymous Phyllis Freedman and Tom Glass Ironworker Management Susan Eisenhower Cassidy Turley Frank and Georgine Anton Gensler Family Foundation Progressive Action Cooperative Sheila Etzkorn and Michael Binder Grunley Construction Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP Gladding, McBean Trust (IMPACT) Executive Building Maintenance Company, Inc. Balfour Beatty Construction Goodman-Gable-Gould/Adjusters Alexander H. and Roberta Jeffries Joan Fabry and Michael Klein Holland & Knight LLP/ BB&T International Jason Johnston Mel and Dene Garbow Whayne S. Quin Brookfield Office Properties Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wolf S. Kann Sons Company Delon Hampton & Associates, The JBG Companies Commonwealth Land Title Greenberg Foundation, Inc. Chartered Patton Boggs LLP Insurance Company-Commercial Hargrove, Inc. Russell Katz Alison K. Hoagland STUDIOS Architecture Services – Washington, D.C. The Nathalie L. Klaus Charitable Michael Kierzkowski Catherine and W.T. Ingold The Tower Companies Charles A. DeBenedittis Trust -- Susan L. Klaus Kishimoto.Gordon.Dalaya PC Jefferson Hotel* Turner Construction Company Design Cuisine Rafael V. Lopez and Linda I. Marks Frederick A. Kober Andrew Joskow and Lisa Sockett U.S. Department of Energy The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Drs. Linda B. + Jonathan S. Lyons Michael W. Kolakowski Stephen E. Kitchen UT-Batelle Foundation, Inc. Microdesk lee)sallee & company C.M. Kling & Associates, Inc. Dr. Tescia A. Yonkers* The Richard H. Driehaus Nixon Peabody LLP and Jeff Lesk Lehman Smith McLeish, PLLC Harold Leich Foundation Occasions Caterers Amber Majid James W. and Sharon B. Lowe $10,000-$24,999 Robert W. and Louisa C. Duemling Laura Peebles and Ellen Hollis S. McLoughlin J.W. Marriott Washington DC* Eagle Bank Fingerman McWilliams | Ballard, Inc. Marshall Moya Design, LLC American Society of Civil EastBanc Potomac Valley Brick Joan Meixner and Paul Burack Leroy Misuraca Engineers Cynthia R. and Charles G. Field Reed Construction Data Meltech Corporation G. Martin Moeller, Jr. and Steven American Society of Landscape FXFOWLE Architects, LLP Lola C. Reinsch and Ann K. Morales Dickens Architects* Gensler J. Almont Pierce Mr. and Mrs. F. Joseph Moravec Monument Parking Co., Inc. ASSA ABLOY Gilbane Building Company Ann Satterthwaite Diana R. and Charles A. Nathan M. Howard Morse Beech Street Foundation The Haskell Company The David M. Schwarz Architects National Concrete Masonry Donald B. Myer Bender Foundation, Inc. Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Charitable Foundation, Inc. Association Sakura Namioka Deborah Berke & Partners Hilton Worldwide Victor O. Schinnerer National Electrical Contractors Darwina L. Neal Architects LLP Joseph and Lynn Horning & Company, Inc. Association New York Building Congress, Inc. Blake Real Estate, Inc. International Brotherhood of Albert H. Small Jr. The National Trust for Historic Newmark Knight Frank Brick Industry Association Electrical Workers Tompkins Builders, Inc. Preservation Henry Otto Brotherhood Bank & Trust JBG Rosenfeld Retail Washington Business Journal* Robert and Kay Oshel Joe Palca Central Building & A. Eugene Kohn, FAIA RIBA JIA/ The William Randolph Hearst Charles Pankow Foundation PM Services Company Preservation L.P. Kohn Pedersen Fox Foundations Rippeteau Architects, PC Jillian Hanbury Poole Ed Collins/Washington Design Associates PC Beverly Willis Architecture Ray and Ann Ritchey William Regan Center* Laborers’ International Union Foundation Ruina Family Fund Beth and Scott Ross James G. Davis Construction of North America Deby and Bob Wulff Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Sandherr Susan W. Schwartz, Ph.D. Corporation* Lerner Enterprises Mr. and Mrs. Albert H. Small Louis H. Skidmore, Jr. FAMILY Magazine* Metro Washington Plumbing $1,000-$2,499 Alexander C. & Tillie S. Speyer Jeff B. Speck Fisher Brothers Foundation and Heating and Cooling Contractors* Foundation Craig M. Villalobos and Louis Dreyfus Property Group Will Miller and Lynn Maguire Harold L. Adams Dr. Lawrence Spinelli Steve Humes Forest City Enterprises Milton and Dorothy Sarnoff Kathryn Alsegaf Dwayne J. Sye Luke Wassum and Sarah Herb and Barbara Franklin Raymond Foundation American Architectural Foundation Vornado/Charles E. Smith Fairbrother Shirlee and Howard Friedenberg Walter P Moore American Institute of Architecture Wagner Roofing Company Beth Wehrle Goodrich Management National Engineers Week Students Mallory and Diana Walker Scott and Katy Weidenfeller Company, Inc. Foundation* Anonymous Walton Construction—A CORE Charles Wilkes Graham Foundation for Advanced Prince Charitable Trusts Arup Company* The Willard InterContinental Hotel* Studies in the Fine Arts SIGAL Construction Corporation Atmosphere, Inc. Washington Conservation Guild* Gilbert E. DeLorme, Esq. and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Robert and Kathy Baer K. Wolf Webb and R. Beverly $250-$499 Greenstein DeLorme & Sorg Architects Linna M. Barnes and R. Webb Luchs, P.C.* Sunrise Foundation Christian J. Mixter Linden H. and Judith A. Welch Charles D. Ablard Hanley Wood Tishman Speyer Mark W. Boland, Esq.* Jill and Burton White Marcel Acosta Robert W. Holleyman, II Tishman Speyer Properties Boston Properties Wilkes Artis, Chartered Jeff Alpher and Haley Kaufman International Brotherhood of Henry and Jessica Townsend* Building Blocks, Inc. Wine Enthusiast Ammann & Whitney Boilermakers, Ship Builders, U.S. Green Building Council Construction Industry Round Table Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Michael Anderson and Forgers, & Helpers United Jewish Endowment Fund L.R. Costanzo Co., Inc. Nancy Witherell Anna Hamadyk International Masonry Institute United Way of the National Mrs. Donald Coupard Neal L. Wood Anonymous (2) International Union of Bricklayers Capital Area Christopher Dorval Norbert W. Young, Jr., FAIA Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Apgar IV & Allied Craftworkers Washington Woodworkers Guild* James G. Davis Agnes Artemel Lt. Col. and Mrs. William K. Konze Wells Fargo and Eastdil Secured John Diamond $500-$999 Ayers Saint Gross MARPAT Foundation, Inc. Eugene R. Eisman and Baines Construction The Meltzer Group $2,500-$4,999 Charlene Currie Troy Adkins Shalom Baranes Associates National Museum of American Envision Design PLLC Anonymous Ernest C. Barrett III History All Stage & Sound, Inc. Laura Einstein Art Deco Society of Washington Jason Bassingthwaite and Jane and Fred North* Andersen Corporation Philip Esocoff, FAIA James and Susan Avery Nichole Rohrer Oak Ridge Associated Universities Bunty and Tom† Armstrong David C. Evans, Esq. Elinor Bacon Franklin K. Benfield and Related Companies BDO Seidman, LLP EYA The Bernstein Companies Sharon R. Marsh RTKL Associates Inc. Bernstein Management Firehook Biegel & Waller LLP Mary Ellen Bergeron Robert A.M. Stern Architects LLP Corporation Sylvain Garnaud Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Sally Berk and Sanders H. Berk, MD Jim and Sharon Todd Bonstra Haresign Architects Harriet R. Greenfield Jason M. Brooks and Lih Yin Hiyu Phillip G. Bernstein U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Carolyn Schwenker Brody* Greening Urban Building and Construction Trades Sara Ann Bounds U.S. Department of Housing and California University of Anita Hairston Department (AFL-CIO) Bowie Gridley Architects Urban Development Pennsylvania Randy Harrell Claire and Thomas Cardella A. R. Braunmuller and The Vinyl Institute CH2M HILL Hickok Cole Architects Jerome A. Conlon Christine L. Krueger ZGF ARCHITECTS LLP Clark Charitable Foundation, Inc. Michael L. Horst W. Kent and Margaret S. Cooper Brennan + Company Architects 9 Annual Report 2011

Jamie Bresner Joel Hunter and Elinor Green Stefanie Zeldin Sigal and William D. Browning Hunter† Robert K. Sigal Capital Specs, LLC Michael A. Joy Patricia Squires and The Cornerstone Society Jan D. Carline George J. Kelly and Lindsay Kelly Patrick J. Spann Catholic University School Scott Kratz Joseph D. Steller of Architecture Julie Kurland and Marcia S. Diehl The Stevens Group he Cornerstone Society honors individu- Wallace W. Chandler Anita Lager Clarence A. Stillions als who have invested in the future of Cherry Hill Park M.K. Lanzillota, FAIA and Lee Anne J. Stone the National Building Museum through Larry E. Barnett Memorial Fund Becker, FAIA Barbara Strack T at the Chicago Community Trust John K. Lapiana William and Lois Stratton their estate plans. Will Clark Barbara G. Laurie Lawrence Stuebing and William F. Clinger Mary E. Lawrence and Peter Buck Lois Berlin Donald Cobean Lee and Associates, Inc. Julie E. Swiatek Perry Cofield The Levy Group Limited Shar Taylor Anonymous (2) Ginnie Cooper and Roger K. Lewis and Doris C. and Vigdor I. Teplitz C. Dudley Brown, FASID Richard Bauman Eleanor R. Lewis John Thomann Perry and Laura Cofield Kristi Cotner Richard Longstreth Nestor Tirado Robert W. Duemling David Cox William and Barbara Lynch Harriet Tregoning Howard and Shirlee Friedenberg Warren and Claire Cox Anne Kriken Mann Kristen and Christopher Ullman Ralph H. Craft Lawrence Mason University of Maryland School Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Wolf Greenberg Jonathan Davis Suzanne McLees of Architecture Kenneth and Virginia Grunley DC Maxecuters Gillian McPhee and Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Alice Haddix Sheila and Peter de Bretteville Greg DiCostanzo Washington/Alexandria Russell V. and Ingrid C. Keune Steve Deggendorf and David Metzger Architecture Center Dennis McClellan Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Lt. Col. and Mrs. William K. Konze Eric Dobson James N. Michel and Carole Fitzgerald, L.L.P. Alexandra A. Kosmides Downtown DC BID Toulousy-Michel Robert A. Weinstein and Sally D. Liff Mary Draper and Jeffrey Feltman David Miller and M. Scott Bowling Judith M. Capen Ryan P. McKay Driscoll Family Foundation Robert L. Miller Ruth Ellen and Jack Wennersten Frances M. and Kenneth L. Nathanson Fynnette Eaton and James Miller Miller, Miller & Canby Scott M. Wilson Alma Edgerly J.C. and Neil Milner Ed Worthy Jane and Fred North Barbara and David Ehrlich Mueser Rutledge Consulting Robert Zuraski and John C. Peterson Harold and Louise Engle Engineers Elizabeth Monnac Arnold J. Prima, Jr., FAIA Jim Epstein Philip Muse Whayne and Ursula Quin Rick Epstein and Becky Lewis National Association of Housing Matching Gifts Rosalie Fanale & Redevelopment Officials Reinsch Pierce Family Foundation Daniel Feil Jo-Ann Neuhaus Bank of America Foundation Chase W. Rynd Frances Ferguson Rob and Linda Obenreder Morris and Gwendolyn Loretta Schuman, PhD Whit Fletcher Al Orlo* Cafritz Foundation James W. Todd Nancy McElroy Folger Paul Pascarelli ExxonMobil Foundation Beverly A. Willis P. Douglas Folk and David W. Pate Freddie Mac Foundation Cynthia Lasko Clarence W. Pearson Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Michael Friel Susan Piedmont-Palladino and The Estate of Jacqueline Aamot Roy Gee Douglas R. Palladino Honorary Gifts The Estate of Richard F. Evans Giuliani Associates Architects Mary and John Pitts The Estate of Col. Barbara M. Macknick Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Bryan and Dina Purcell Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Aron, Foundation Patricia Ralston in honor of Robert A.M. Stern John Goodman Random House, Inc. H. David Kaplan, in memory Raymond D. and Ellen Susan A. Retz and of Ruth McDonald Hahn Grabb Charles J. Lovett Myra Karstadt, in honor Bucky Green Edward T. and Dee Ann Revere of Lester Karstadt Grimm + Parker Architects Bernard Robinson Stephen Groh Timothy Robson Bruce Guthrie Tom Sachs Karen D. Halle Barbara M. and Gregory Sanders HKS, P.C. Adrienne Schmitz Martin Holmer and Jo Moore Angela and George Schreiber Hord Coplan Macht, Inc. Ben and Seth Schreiber Gregory M. Hoss and Linda B. Schwartz Lars Etzkorn Vincent Scully and Katherine Lynn Howard University School of Setty & Associates, Ltd. Architecture & Planning Joseph and Martha Shannon Mary Ann C. Huey Gilaine and Larry Shindelman

The National Building Museum greatly appreciates the ongoing management, Members of the Cornerstone Society gathered maintenance, and preservation of its historic landmark home to celebrate the Society’s official launch on by the U.S. General Services Administration. December 17, 2010. Photo by Peter Cutts 10 National Building Museum

2011 Statement of Financial Activities

Year ended September 30, 2011 Chart 3

Other Earned Unrestricted Temporarily Permanently 2011 2010 Income Restricted Restricted Total Total 12%

Great Hall 17% Revenue and support Contributed Revenue, Goods, & Services Contributions and grants $1,538,664 $1,401,493 - $2,940,157 $3,580,232 Shop 60% 11% Contributed goods and services 2,917,914 - - 2,917,914 966,735 Great Hall events 1,806,706 - - 1,806,706 1,561,147 Museum Shop sales 1,176,013 - - 1,176,013 1,129,163 Fees: Education, Tour, Exhibition 788,822 - - 788,822 410,061 Membership 252,112 - - 252,112 224,620 FY11 Sources of Event income 58,725 - - 58,725 79,692 Support and Revenue Contribution box 55,727 - - 55,727 56,612

Rental Income and Other 354,952 - - 354,952 353,047 General & Net assets released from restrictions - 1,193,527 (1,193,527) - - - Aministrative satisfaction of program and time 3%Chart 4 restrictions

Great Hall 5% Total revenue and support 10,143,162 207,966 - 10,351,128 8,361,309 Fundraising 12%

Expenses Program services Shop Exhibitions 1,833,246 - - 1,833,246 2,170,233 11% Programmatic Education and public programs 3,852,049 - - 3,852,049 1,806,923 69% Museum Shop 1,121,276 - - 1,121,276 1,090,805 Communications and marketing 1,210,603 - - 1,210,603 931,270 Great Hall events 563,899 - - 563,899 497,045 Collections 144,893 - - 144,893 146,349 FY11 Expenses Total program expenses 8,725,966 - - 8,725,966 6,642,625

he National Building Museum is Supporting services General and administrative 361,204 - - 361,204 361,132 a non-profit, education institution Membership 120,807 - - 120,807 114,168 T designated under section Fundraising 1,281,145 - - 1,281,145 1,206,509 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. This financial report is based on an Total supporting expenses 1,763,156 - - 1,763,156 1,681,809 independently audited financial statement. For a copy of the complete Total expenses 10,489,122 - - 10,489,122 8,324,434 financial statement please write to: Accounting Department, National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Changes in net assets from (345,960) 207,966 - (137,994) 36,875 Washington, DC, 20001, operations or call 202-272-2448.

Non-Operating Activity The National Building Museum makes all Investment Income 50,284 6,335 - 56,619 190,343 financial records available to its outside auditors and attests to their accuracy and Changes in net assets (295,676) 214,301 - (81,375) 227,218 completeness. Additionally, the Museum attests that it maintains adequate internal Net Assets, Beginning of Year 905,142 2,620,168 40,000 3,565,310 3,338,092 accounting controls and uses sound accounting policies. Net Assets, End of Year $609,466 $2,834,469 $40,000 $3,483,935 $3,565,310

Chase W. Rynd President and Executive Director National Building Museum NONPROFIT ORG 401 F Street NW Washington, DC 20001 US POSTAGE PAID 202-272-2448 / www.nbm.org SUBURBAN, MD Red Line Metro, Judiciary Square PERMIT NO. 3878

Fiscal Year 2011 at-a-glance

Total attendance: 581,421 (a 22% increase from FY10) Website page views: 2,127,764 Adult education program attendance: 8,259 Youth education program attendance: 68,096 Total revenue: $10,407,747 Total contributed income: $6,165,910 Total # and value of volunteer hours: 13,216 hours; estimated value $433,353 at $32.79 per hour**

**Source: The Independent Sector