As a part of the celebration of the reopening of this wing, organist Alexander Frey carried out 4 sold-out recitals of music of France in one weekend within the French Gallery. The museum stands on the previous site of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, the place in 1881 a disgruntled office seeker, Charles Guiteau, shot President James Garfield (see James A. Garfield assassination). The station was demolished in 1908 because it didn’t conform to the McMillan Plan for the Mall. In 1918, temporary warfare buildings have been constructed on the location; these were demolished by 1921 to construct the …