After two years, the $70 million renovation of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is now complete. Located just blocks from the White House, the wedge-shaped Neoclassical building was originally built in 1908 as a Masonic temple—which banned women members—by Waddy Wood’s eponymous firm. It was purchased in 1983 by D.C. art collector and socialite Wilhelmina Holladay and opened in 1987 as the world’s first museum dedicated solely to women artists. Mrs. Holladay, as she is still reverently referred to by museum staff, died at the age of 98 in 2021, four months before the museum shuttered for renovation.