As part of the celebration of the reopening of this wing, organist Alexander Frey carried out four sold-out recitals of music of France in a single weekend in the French Gallery. The museum stands on the former web site of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, where in 1881 a disgruntled workplace seeker, Charles Guiteau, shot President James Garfield (see James A. Garfield assassination). The station was demolished in 1908 because Picture of Arts it did not conform to the McMillan Plan for the Mall. In 1918, short-term war buildings have been constructed on the site; these have been demolished …
