Travelog post for: Orange

On the last day of our visit, we go to the National Portrait Gallery and American Art Museum. 



Downtown Heritage Trail is composed of 21 poster-sized signs that gives interesting facts which link the history of the city to the history of the nation. According to this sign, Abraham Lincoln walked right where we are standing now!  The museum used to be the Grand Hall of the Patent Office, where Lincoln’s second inaugural ball was held, and the Office was used as a hospital during civil war.



The first section we visit has American folk arts. 





The giraffe is made with bottle caps. 



Next we visit the protrait museum where different styles of protraits, paintings and sculptures are displayed. 



They are very famous American writers: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and.. mmm... we remember it as Poe but can't say for sure. 



Now this one I recognize! It's Joan of Arc!



And these two also!  Previous Presidents Clinton and Bush!