In 1869, a pharmacist named John Lawrence Kidwell purchased a swamp in Washington, D. C. One year after he died in 1885, Kidwell’s fortuitist investment became Potomac Park. Early in the 20th Century, the Lincoln Memorial was constructed on the former Kidwell’s Meadows. The American Institute of Pharmacy Building was also built on Kidwell’s land in 1934. The Classical Revival design by prolific D. C. architect John Russel Pope is faced with Vermont marble. This is the only private structure on The National Mall. The APhA headquarters was listed by the U. S. Register of Historic Places in 1977.
