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Excerpt from The U. S. Patent Office: A Short Account of Its History, Organization and Procedure In 1810 Congress authorized the purchase of a building for the aecom nodation of the general post office and of the office of the keeper of pat ents. The building purchased had been known as Blodgett's Hotel, situ ated on E Street between Seventh and Eighth Streets northwest, and in 1811 the business of the Patent Office was moved from a house on Eighth Street, just below F Street, to the second floor of the new building, where it re mained under the superintendence of Dr. Wm. Thornton until his death, which took place in 1828. Dr. Thorn ton was the first superintendent of the Patent Office, the position having been cmted for him by President Madison. In 1836 these quarters were destroyed by fire and Congress then authorized the erection of the present building. The original, or, F Street wing, was finished in 1840, the east wing in 1852, the west wing in 1856, and the north wing in 1867. The total cost of the building has been about In 1877 a disastrous fire broke out on the third floor of the G and Ninth Street wings, destroying many records and models. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.