1877 U.S. Patent Office fire

When

1877

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

38.90° N, 77.02° W

Description

1877 fire in Washington, D.C

1877 fire in Washington, D.C.

The Patent Office fire of 1877 was the second of two major fires of the U.S. Patent Office. It occurred in the 1864 Patent Office Building of Washington, D.C., on September 24, 1877. The building was constructed to be fireproof, but many of its contents were not. About 80,000 models and 600,000 copy drawings were burned to some degree.

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