The Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., was designed by Charles A. Platt. The Detroit railroad-car manufacturer Charles Lang Freer founded it and donated his collection, which the Smithsonian Board of Regents accepted in 1906. The infobox says built 1923, while the text says construction began in 1916 and finished in 1921 after a World War I delay. The gallery opened to the public on May 9, 1923.
The infobox lists Florentine Renaissance, and the text describes an Italian Renaissance design inspired by palazzos. The exterior is pink granite from Milford, Massachusetts, the courtyard walls are unpolished Tennessee white marble, and the interior walls are Indiana limestone.
A 1993 expansion connected it to the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The building closed in January 2016 and reopened in October 2017. It is a National Historic Landmark. Free drop-in tours run daily, and the article gives no general hours.
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