3D print the Old Patent Office Building
A free, printable model of the Old Patent Office Building and the surrounding streets and buildings in Washington, D.C., generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Old Patent Office Building in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 10 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
10 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- A block-sized building
The real building fills a whole city block. Print it larger, or choose Full detail with a fine nozzle, to keep facade detail; Print friendly adapts thin parts to a smaller print.
- One piece with the ground
The Old Patent Office Building is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Old Patent Office Building takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Old Patent Office Building
The Old Patent Office Building, a historic landmark in Washington, D.C., fills a whole city block bounded by F and G Streets and by 7th and 9th Streets NW, in Chinatown's Penn Quarter section. The architect Robert Mills designed it in the Greek Revival style, and construction started in 1836. The building was needed partly to house the scale models that patent law of the time required inventors to submit, which the Patent Office retained.
Mills compared the portico's proportions to "those of the Parthenon of Athens", which broke with the Roman and Renaissance models behind earlier ambitious public buildings in Washington. Fireproofing was an essential concern, so he covered the interior spaces with masonry vaults and used no wooden beams, and skylights and interior light courts brought in daylight.
The building has housed many federal departments and showed the first Smithsonian exhibits. During the Civil War it served as military barracks, hospital and morgue, and the poet Walt Whitman read to wounded men there. It hosted the 1865 Second Inaugural Ball for Lincoln. In 1958 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law handing it to the Smithsonian, after a 1953 bill proposed demolishing it for a parking lot. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and, alongside it, the National Portrait Gallery.
About this model
The Old Patent Office Building is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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