Washington Architecture, 1791-1861: Problems in DevelopmentU.S. Commission of Fine Arts, 1972 - 161 Seiten |
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1st sess 2d sess architect brick builder built C.H.S. Records Caemmerer Calvert Vaux Canal Capital Capitol central chapel Columbia Commissioners Cong Congress Corcoran Art Gallery cornice decorative demolished District Dodge House Downing Downing's early east Eastern Branch erected exterior facade Federal City floor Georgetown Greek Revival grounds HABS Hall Ibid improvements J. C. Loudon James Renwick Jefferson John Clagett John Clagett Proctor John Notman L'Enfant land landscape Latrobe located major Mall ment Mills N.W. fig N.W. FIGURE N.W. Photograph Norman Oak Hill Cemetery original Owen Patent Office paved pavilion Pennsylvania Avenue Photograph taken picturesque pilasters plastic Potomac President's House President's Park Public Buildings published Q Street Report residence Richardsonian Romanesque Robert Mills roof side Smithsonian squares stone structures style Thirtieth Street Tiber Tiber Creek tion trees Tudor Place Vaux vernacular Villa Washington William Thornton wing York
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Seite 89 - I mean stock to remain in this country, to the United States of America, to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Seite 20 - Whenever it is proposed to prepare plans for the Capitol. I should prefer the adoption of some one of the models of antiquity. which have had the approbation of thousands of years.
Seite 15 - It is much to be regretted, however common the case is, that men, who possess talents which fit them for peculiar purposes, should almost invariably be under the influence of an untoward disposition, or are sottish, idle, or possessed of some other disqualification, by which they plague all those with whom they are concerned. But I did not expect to have met with such perverseness in Major L'Enfant as his late conduct exhibited.
Seite 2 - That the said commissioners, or any two of them, shall have power to purchase or accept such quantity of land on the eastern side of the said river, within the said district, as the President shall deem proper for the use of the United States...
Seite 4 - The special object of asking your aid is to have drawings of the particular grounds most likely to be approved for the site of the federal town and buildings.
Seite 2 - Commissioners appointed to provide suitable buildings for the accommodation of Congress and of the President, and for the public offices of the Government...
Seite 15 - In future I must strictly enjoin you to touch no man's property without his consent, or the previous order of the Commissioners. — I wished you to be employed in the arrangements of the Federal City. — I still wish it: but only on condition that you can conduct yourself in subordination to the authority of the Commissioners, to whom by law the business is entrusted, and who stand between you and the President of the United States — to the laws of the land — and to the rights of its citizens.
Seite 3 - City should be fixed, or of combining every necessary consideration in the choice of situation, and although the means now within the power of the Country are not such as to pursue the design to any great extent it will be obvious that the plan should be drawn on such a scale as to leave room for that aggrandizement and embellishment which the increase of the wealth of the nation will permit it to pursue at any period however remote...
Seite 33 - Constitution may be effectually brought into action by laws promoting the improvement of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures, the cultivation and encouragement of the mechanic and of the elegant arts, the advancement of literature, and the progress of the sciences, ornamental and profound...
Seite 2 - ... that, for such employment as he is now engaged in, for prosecuting public works, and carrying them into effect, he was better qualified than any one, who had come within my knowledge in this country, or indeed in any other, the probability of obtaining whom could be counted upon.