 He championed the creation of a city museum for the District of Columbia.The research library at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in Mount Vernon Square is named in his honor.In 2011 the 5000-piece Kiplinger Washington Collection was pledged to several Washington area museums, with most of it (4,000 graphic works) going to the Historical Society and other portions going to Mount Vernon, the National Portrait Gallery and President Lincoln's Cottage at Soldiers Home.