Portal to the Corps Chronicling the National Museum of the Marine Corps

by Alexander, Colonel Joseph; Christmas, General Ron; McKay, General Gerald; Long, Colonel Joseph; Fentress, Curtis Worth

• ISBN13: 9781864702095
• ISBN10: 1864702095
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-04
• Publisher: Images Publishing Dist Ac

Summary

The National Museum of the Marine Corps was born of an act of Congress, which in the late 1980s appropriated seed money for each branch of the US military to build a national museum. The Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and Naval Facilities held a national design competition to select the museum's architects. Fentress Bradburn Architects emerged as the winner with a design inspied by the heroic flag-raising atop Mount Suriachi on Iwo Jima, the most recognised and enduring symbol of the Marine Corps. This compelling monograph is a collection of essays by those who laboured to bring the National Museum of the Marine Corps from inception to completion. Writers include Colenol Joseph Alexander, General Ron Christmas, Generald Gerald McKay, Colonel Joseph Long and architect Curtis Worth Fentress

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Esprit de Corps	p. 8
A Monumental Project	p. 14
The Competition	p. 20
Greening the Team	p. 38
Project of a Lifetime	p. 46
The Museum	p. 64
The Skylight	p. 130
Adjunct Spaces	p. 154
Accomplishments	p. 174
Appendix	p. 182
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