A manual on the origin and development of Washington

by H. Paul Caemmerer

“We are embarking on an ambitious building program for the city of Washington. The Memorial Bridge is under way with all that it holds for use and beauty. New buildings are soon contemplated. This program should represent the best that exists in the art and science of architecture. Into these structures, which must be considered as of a permanent nature, ought to go the aspirations of the nation, its ideals, expressed in forms of beauty. If our country wishes to compete with others, let it not be in the support of armaments but in the making of a beautiful capital city. Let it express the soul of America. Whenever an American is at the seat of his Government, however traveled and cultured he may be, he ought to find a city of stately proportions, symmetrically laid out and adorned with the best that there is in architecture, which would arouse his imagination and stir his patriotic pride. In the coming years Washington should be not only the art center of our own country but the art center of the world. Around it should center all that is best in science, in learning, in letters, and in art. These are the results that justify the creation of those national resources with which we have been favored.” Calvin Coolidge.

“This is more than the making of a beautiful city. Washington is not only the Nation’s Capital, it is the symbol of America. By its dignity and architectural inspiration we stimulate pride in our country, we encourage that elevation of thought and character which comes from great architecture.” Herbert Hoover.

“In the Capital an example should be set for the country as a whole in the matter of planning. Our national monuments will attract seekers of the ideal in art. More and more it will become the tendency to establish the headquarters of societies of literature and art in Washington and to make bequests of collections to the National Capital. Already there is a definite project to establish here in Washington a national gallery of painting. Thus the Capital may be foreseen as an art center responding to the desire of visitors from all over the world and satisfying that demand. The public buildings, as finally located and constructed, should place Washington in the forefront of the architecturally beautiful cities of the world.” Andrew W. Mellon.

“The people of America are beginning to see that it is not necessary to be commonplace in order to have common sense * * *. They wish for themselves in the public buildings of municipalities and of States and Nation to have the best results of time and the best attainments of genius. What the people desire, their representatives in State legislature, in municipal body, and in the Congress of the United States desire for them. The art of our fathers, the art of our private citizens, is to be the art of our people and of our whole people.” Elihu Root.

“A city planned on such a noble scale as Washington is rare in the world. It is almost unique. One hundred years of use has demonstrated its merit. The plan of its founders should be maintained as the basis for future development.” Cass Gilbert.

A TRIBUTE FROM VISCOUNT BRYCE

“In these circumstances may not the city of Washington feel that its mission in life is to be the embodiment of the majesty and the stateliness of the whole Nation, representing all that is finest in American conception, all that is largest and most luminous in American thought; embodying: the Nation’s ideal of what the Capital of such a Nation should be * * * the highest aspirations as to external dignity and beauty that a great people can form for that which is the center and national focus of their life.”

INDEX

• Abingdon, site of, [117].
• Ackerman & Ross, architects, [284].
• Adams Memorial, [187], [325].
• Adams, President John, [40].
• Adams, President John Quincy, [45], [176], [268].
• Agriculture, Department of, [89], [145], [284].
• Alexandria, Va., [8], [37], [117].
• Allied Architects, Inc., of Washington, [235].
• American Battle Monuments Commission, [315].
• American Institute of Architects, [73], [81], [146].
• American Institute of Pharmacy, [277].
• American University, [279].
• Anacostia Park, [10], [161].
• Arboretum, National, [161], [296].
• Architecture, classical order of, [86], [165], [171], [196], [235], [261].
• Archives Building, National, [284].
• Arlington Mansion, [182], [309].
• Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, [313].
• Arlington Memorial Bridge, [93], [135], [284], [296].
• Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, [135].
• Arlington National Cemetery, [82], [142], [309], [311].
• Army War College, [284].
• Art in the United States, influence on:
• Centennial Celebration of 1876, [65].
• World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, [65].
• Bacon, Henry, Architect, [131], [333], [343].
• Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., [45].
• Bancroft, George, [177].
• Barsotti, Chevalier Carolo, gift of, [339].
• Bennett, Parsons & Frost, architects, [284].
• Bingham, Theodore A., Superintendent Public Buildings and Grounds, [146].
• Blair, Gist, [153], [155].
• Blashfield, Edwin Howland, mural painter, [247].
• Blodgett Hotel, [43].
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts, [65].
• Botanical Society of Washington, [11].
• Botanic Garden, [296].
• Brown, Arthur, architect, [284].
• Brown, Glenn and Bedford, architects, [284].
• Boundary Stones, District of Columbia, [19].
• Bryce, Viscount, [279], [358].
• Budget, Director of the, [307].
• Building Regulations of President Washington, [21], [101], [105].
• Bulfinch, Charles, Architect of the Capitol, [219].
• Burke, Edmund, statue of, [343].
• Burnes, David, [15].
• Burnham, Daniel H., [77], [80], [210], [235].
• Burnham & Co., D. H., [80], [235], [241].
• Cabin John Bridge, [215].
• Calvert Street Bridge, [284].
• Capitol, the:
• Bronze doors of, [224].
• Description of, an early, [165].
• Description of, a later, [219].
• Enlargement of, [49], [219].
• Group, [85].
• House of Representatives wing of, bronze doors of the, [228].
• Paintings in Rotunda of, [221].
• Senate wing of, bronze doors of the, [226].
• Capitol Grounds and Union Station Plaza, development, [296], [301].
• Capitol Prison, old, [43].
• Capper-Cramton Act, the, [108], [151].
• Carnegie, Andrew, [276].
• Carnegie Institution of Washington, [277].
• Carrere & Hastings, architects, [235], [277], [313].
• Carrollsburgh, [37].
• Casey, Edward Pearce, architect, [245], [275], [284], [343].
• Casey, Thomas Lincoln, [205].
• Cassatt, Alexander J., president Pennsylvania Railroad Co., [84].
• Catholic University of America, [279].
• Centennial Celebration, influence on Art, [65].
• Central Heating Plant for Public Buildings, [284].
• Chain Bridge, [284].
• Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, [277].
• Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co., [45], [109], [182], [183].
• Chicago, [65].
• Chief of Engineers, [147].
• Chodzinski, Kasimiriez, sculptor, [331].
• Christ Church, Alexandria, Va., [117].
• Christ Church, Washington, [187], [190].
• Churches in Washington, National, [289].
• Clarke, Gilmore D., [119].
• Clay, Henry, [99], [176].
• Columbia Institution for the Deaf, [279].
• Columbia Island, [137], [142].
• Columbus Monument, [241].
• Commerce Building, Department of, [279].
• Committee on the Library, [98], [161].
• Congress of the United States, [228].
• Congressional Cemetery, [190].
• Congressional Record, [232].
• Connogochegue River, [7].
• Constitution Avenue, [135], [293].
• Constitution Hall, [275].
• Constitution of the United States:
• Provision for Federal District, in, [4].
• In Library of Congress, [247].
• Continental Congress, the:
• Cities occupied by, [1].
• Inconvenienced by moving, [2].
• Coolidge, President Calvin, [276], [296].
• Coolidge, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague, [250].
• Council of Fine Arts, [95], [99].
• Corbett, Harvey W., architect, [119].
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, [65], [179], [275].
• Corcoran House, [179].
• Couper, William, sculptor, [326].
• Courts of the District of Columbia, [193].
• Crawford, Thomas, sculptor, [224], [226].
• Cret, Paul P., architect, [252], [276], [284].
• Custis, George Washington Parke, [182], [203], [309].
• Dante, statue of, [159], [339].
• D’Arc, Jeanne, statue of, [159], [333].
• Daughters of the American Revolution, National Society of the, [275].
• Decatur House, [176].
• Declaration of Independence, [9].
• In Library of Congress, [245].
• Delano, Frederic A., [163].
• Delano & Aldrich, architects, [284].
• Dermott, James R., plan of, [32].
• District of Columbia, the:
• Act establishing, [7]
• Agreement for purchase of land for—
• Terms of, [15];
• Signers of, [16].
• Board of Commissioners of, [7], [102], [305].
• Government of the, [305].
• Boundary stones of, [19].
• Description of 1810-1815, [41].
• Georgetown made part of, [179].
• Government of the, [305].
• Highway Plan of, [69].
• One hundredth anniversary of removal of the seat of government to the, [73].
• Origin and form of government of, [305].
• District of Columbia Courthouse, [193].
• Douglas, Stephen A., [321].
• Downing, A. J., [145].
• Dubois, Paul, sculptor, [333].
• Dunbar, U. S. J., sculptor, [326].
• Dupont Memorial, [333].
• Early, Gen. Jubal A., [57].
• Early settlements along the Potomac, [9].
• Eastern Branch, [7], [8], [13].
• East Capitol Street, extending the Mall axis eastward, [109], [111].
• East Potomac Park, [155].
• Eliot, Dr. Charles W., [240], [243].
• Ellicott, Andrew, [19], [28], [29].
• Ellicott Plan, [29].
• Elliott, Hon. Richard N., [299].
• Embassies and Legations, [289].
• Engraving and Printing, Bureau of, [273], [284].
• Expositions held in the United States, [68].
• Federal City, the:
• Movement to establish, [1].
• Naming streets of, [20].
• Original agreement for, [15].
• Preliminary studies of, [25].
• Site of, [13].
• Federal Hall, [5].
• Federal Reserve Board Building, [276].
• Federal Trade Commission Building, [284].
• Fernald, Senator Bert N., [299].
• Flagg, Ernest, architect, [275].
• Folger Shakespeare Library, [252].
• Ford’s Theater, [57], [215].
• Fort Drive, [108], [111].
• Fort Stevens, [57].
• Fort Washington, Md., [109], [151].
• Foundry Methodist Church, [45].
• Foxall, Henry, [45].
• Francis Scott Key Bridge, [284].
• Fraser, James E., sculptor, [139], [343].
• Freedom, statue of, [224].
• Freer Gallery of Art, [89], [256], [284].
• French, Daniel Chester, sculptor, [133], [333].
• Friedlander, Leo, sculptor, [139].
• Garden Club of America, [163].
• Garfield Park, [147].
• General Accounting Office, [284].
• George Washington Bicentennial Celebration, [129].
• George Washington Birthplace National Monument, [129].
• George Washington Memorial Parkway, [115], [296].
• George Washington National Masonic Memorial, [119].
• George Washington University, [279].
• Georgetown, [40], [48], [179];
• University, [279].
• Giegengack, A. E., Public Printer, [260].
• Gilbert, Cass, architect, [175], [273], [277], [304].
• Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, architect, [276].
• Government department building, first, [266], [272].
• Government of the United States, the:
• Act for establishment of the temporary and permanent seat of, [7].
• Amendment to act establishing, [8].
• Government Printing Office, [257]-[261].
• Grand Army of the Republic Memorial to Benjamin F. Stephenson, [331].
• Grant, Gen. U. S., Memorial 82, [87], [148], [339].
• Grant, President Ulysses S., [61], [203].
• Great Falls of the Potomac, [45], [109], [115].
• Greenough, Horatio, sculptor, [321].
• Gregory, John, sculptor, [254].
• Guerin, Jules, mural painter, [133].
• Hadfield, George, architect, [190], [193], [219], [309].
• Hallet, Stephen H., [219].
• Hamburg, [37].
• Hamilton, Alexander:
• Part taken in locating National Capital, [6].
• Secretary of the Treasury, first, [271].
• Statue of, [343].
• Hamilton, Mrs. Alexander, [203].
• Hamilton, Mount, [161].
• Harding, President Warren G., [135].
• Hay, John, [91], [177].
• Heath, Hon. Ferry K., [299].
• Height of Buildings, [103].
• Hewlett, J. Monroe, [275].
• Highway Plan of the District of Columbia, [69].
• Hoban, James, architect of the White House, [219], [261].
• Hoover, President Herbert, [263].
• Houdon, Jean Antoine, sculptor, [319].
• House of Representatives Office Building, new, [235], [296].
• Howard University, [279].
• Hughes, Charles Evans, Chief Justice of the United States, [304].
• Independence Hall, [3].
• Indian Tribes in and about the District of Columbia, [10].
• Interior Department, [127], [143], [276], [306].
• Internal Revenue, Bureau of, Building, [284].
• Interstate Commerce Commission Building, [279].
• Jackson, President Andrew:
• Suggests location of Arlington Memorial Bridge, [135].
• Department of the Treasury Building, selects site for, [272].
• Statue of, [321].
• James Creek, [37].
• Japanese Cherry Trees, [155].
• Jeanne d’Arc statue, [333].
• Jefferson Pier, [91], [202].
• Jefferson, President Thomas:
• Architect of the Capitol, appoints, [40], [167].
• Improves Pennsylvania Avenue, [40].
• Influence on architecture, [68], [86].
• Library of, purchase of, [219], [248].
• National Capital, the—
• Alternate plan of, for, [15].
• Founding of, in, part of, [6].
• L’Enfant’s plans for, in directing, part of, [25].
• Pennsylvania Avenue, in the time of, [40], [299].
• Pew of, in Christ Church, [188].
• Secretary of State, [266].
• Streets in, for naming, plan of, [20].
• Suggests that L’Enfant study plans of Old World capitals, [24].
• Trees, to preserve, desire of, [143].
• Washington in days of, [37].
• Jennewein, C. Paul, sculptor, [139].
• John Marshall Place, [193].
• Johnson, President Andrew, [57].
• Johnston, Harriet Lane, [157].
• Jones Point, cornerstone of the District of Columbia at, [19].
• Jones, Thomas Hudson, sculptor, [315].
• Justice, Department of, Building, [284].
• Key, Francis Scott, Mansion, [42], [182].
• Keyes, Senator Henry W., [299].
• King Map, [33].
• Klingle Ford Bridge, [284].
• Labor Department Building, [279].
• Lafayette, General:
• Entertained at—
• Arlington, [182].
• Tudor Place, [187].
• Mount Vernon, visits, [123], [126].
• Statue of, [325].
• Washington, visits, [45].
• Lafayette Park, [147], [153].
• Land Office Building, old, [196].
• Landscape Architects, American Society of, [82].
• Latrobe, Benjamin H., Architect of the Capitol, [40], [167], [219], [304], [319].
• Lawrie, Lee, sculptor, [276].
• Lear, Tobias, burial place of, [190].
• Legations, Embassies and, [289].
• L’Enfant, Pierre Charles:
• Accompanies President Washington and Commissioners to view site for Federal City, [20].
• Biography of, [23].
• Designs Fort Washington, [151].
• Plan of—
• Apparently forgotten, [49], [145].
• Basis of Plan of 1901, [83], [89].
• Description of, [25], [32], [93], [146].
• Influence on parks and highways, [108], [145], [147].
• Methods and features of, [25].
• Preserved in Library of Congress, [29].
• Tomb of, in Arlington, [313].
• Library of Congress, [245], [296].
• Lincoln Memorial, the:
• Description of, [131].
• Decorations in, [133].
• On main axis with Capitol and Washington Monument, [91].
• Statue of Abraham Lincoln, in, [133].
• Lincoln Memorial and surrounding area, [135].
• Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Basin, [135].
• Lincoln Museum, [215].
• Lincoln, President Abraham:
• Assassination of, [215].
• Fort Stevens, under fire at, [57].
• Funeral of, [57].
• Washington in the time of, [53], [147].
• Little Falls of the Potomac, [45].
• Logan, Gen. John A., [313].
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, statue of, [326].
• Luce, Robert, Congressman, [163].
• Lynn, David, Architect of the Capitol, [301], [304].
• McCall, Congressman Samuel W., [95].
• McClellan, Gen. George B., [176].
• McKim, Mead & White, architects, [137], [284], [333].
• McKim, Charles F., architect, [77], [80], [81], [91].
• McKinley, President William, [177].
• McMillan, Senator James, [77], [146], [304].
• McMillan Park Commission:
• Members of, [77].
• Plans of—
• Discussed, [28], [73], [83], [105], [146].
• Important feature of, [301].
• Influence on parks, [150].
• Mall developed, according to, [109].
• McNary, Senator Charles L., [163].
• Madison, Mrs. Dolly, [43], [175], [203], [263].
• Madison, Dolly, House, [153], [175].
• Madison, President James, [43], [173], [175], [188], [201].
• Maginnis & Walsh, architects, [288].
• Mall, the:
• Development of, [87], [145], [296].
• Extension of, [91], [155].
• Head of, [87].
• Restoring axis of, [89].
• Marshall, John:
• George Washington, monument to, author of resolution for erecting a, [199].
• Chief Justice, President Washington Monument Society, [201].
• Secretary of State, [266].
• Statue of Washington, comment on, [319].
• Maryland Legislature, offer of, [2].
• Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission, [108].
• Mayors of Washington, [305].
• Meade, Gen. George G.:
• Grand Review in 1865, participates in, [57].
• Memorial to, [87], [150].
• Meigs, Gen. Montgomery C., [215], [224], [311].
• Mellon, Andrew, W., [256], [301].
• Meridian Hill Park, [157].
• Merriam, John C., [163].
• Metropolitan Museum in New York, [65].
• Mills, Clark, sculptor, [224], [321].
• Mills, Robert, architect, [196], [197], [201], [272].
• Mint, the, Bureau of, [273].
• Monroe, President James, Washington in time of, [45], [101], [188].
• Moore, Charles, former chairman, National Commission of Fine Arts, [82].
• Morris, Robert, [35], [271].
• Morse, S. F. B., first telegraph office of, [196].
• Mount Pleasant, [57].
• Mount Vernon, [121].
• Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, [108], [117], [296].
• Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union, [126].
• Mullett, A. B., architect, [268], [284].
• Municipal Center, the, [296].
• Municipal Fish Wharf, [113].
• Murphy, Frederick V., architect, [288].
• National Academy of Sciences, [276].
• National Capital, the, development of, [13], [105].
• National Capital Park and Planning Commission, [51], [69], [99], [102], [105], [150], [306].
• National Cathedral School, [288].
• National churches in Washington, [289].
• National Commission of Fine Arts, [95], [99], [102], [105], [150], [161], [296], [315].
• National Conference on City Planning, [82].
• National Gallery of Art, [89], [256], [284].
• National Geographic Society, [277].
• National Museum, [89], [256], [284].
• National Park Service, [127], [143], [218].
• National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, [288].
• National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, [275].
• Naval Academy, [319].
• Naval Hospital, [284], [296].
• Naval Observatory, [284].
• Navy Department Building, [296].
• Noyes, Mrs. Frank B., [163].
• Octagon House, [81], [173].
• Oldroyd Collection of Lincolniana, [215].
• Olmsted, Frederick Law, jr., landscape architect, [82], [87], [163].
• Page, William Tyler, [209].
• Palisades of the Potomac, [93].
• Pan American Union, [276].
• Park system of the National Capital, [143], [306].
• Partridge, William T., study of L’Enfant plan by, [25].
• Patent Office, [42], [48], [197].
• Peaslee, Horace W., architect, [333], [343].
• Pennsylvania Avenue, [37], [145], [299].
• Pennsylvania Railroad Co., [84].
• Pension Office Building, old, [284].
• Perry, Hinton R., sculptor, [284].
• Piccirilli Brothers, marble cutters, [133].
• Platt, Charles A., architect, [284].
• Polk, President James K., [51].
• Pope, John Russell, architect, [257], [275], [277], [284].
• Porter, Commodore, owner of Meridian Hill Park site, [159].
• Post Office Department Building, [48], [284].
• Potomac Parks, [131], [155].
• Presidents of the United States, list of, [355].
• Proctor, A. Phimister, sculptor, [284].
• Public Buildings Act of 1926, [296], [299], [301].
• Public Buildings Commission, [293], [301].
• Public Buildings Program, [293].
• Public Health Service Building, [276].
• Public Library, [284].
• Pulaski, Gen. Casimir, statue of, [331].
• Putnam, Herbert, Librarian of Congress, [252].
• Q Street Bridge, [284].
• Quotations from great Americans on the National Capital, [357].
• Railroad into the District, first, [48].
• Rankin, Kellogg & Crane, architects, [284].
• Red Cross, American National, [275].
• Renwick, James, architect, [256], [284].
• Rhind, J. Massey, sculptor, [331].
• Rich, Lorimer, architect, [315].
• Rinehart, William H., sculptor, [226], [228].
• Riverside Drive, [93], [142].
• Rock Creek Cemetery, [187], [325].
• Rock Creek Church, [187].
• Rock Creek Park, [148], [159].
• Rock Creek Parkway, [93], [148].
• Rockefeller, John D., [129].
• Rodgers House, [177].
• Rogers, Randolph, [224].
• Roosevelt, President Theodore, [89], [91], [179], [279].
• Root, Elihu, [91], [95], [98].
• Ross, Albert R., architect, [333].
• Rust, Mrs. Harry Lee, [129].
• Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, [77], [81], [91], [325].
• Scottish Rite Temple, [277].
• Senate and House of Representatives Office Buildings, [235].
• Seven Buildings, the, [266].
• Shaw Lily Gardens, [161].
• Shepherd, Alexander R.:
• District of Columbia, Governor of, [61].
• Statue of, [326].
• Sherman, Hon. John, [203], [209].
• Shipstead-Luce Act, [95], [102].
• Shrady, Henry Merwin, sculptor, [343].
• Simon, Louis, architect, [284].
• Six Buildings, the, [39], [266].
• Smith, Capt. John, [9], [13].
• Smithsonian Institution, [256], [284].
• Social Security Building, [296].
• Société des Femmes de France à New York, [159], [339].
• Soldiers’ Home, [211].
• Sousa Bridge, John Philip, [284].
• St. John’s Church, [153], [190], [192].
• Standards, Bureau of, [284].
• Star, Evening, [51], [299].
• Star-Spangled Banner, national anthem:
• Act of Congress designating, [185].
• Original, in National Museum, [185].
• State, Department of, [81], [265].
• State, War, and Navy Building, [61], [81], [268], [284].
• State Zoning Enabling Act, [101].
• Statues and Monuments in Washington, list of, [347].
• Street cars, Introduction in Washington of, [57].
• Sultan, Brig. Gen. Dan. I., [284].
• Supreme Court Chamber, [304].
• Supreme Court Building Commission, [304].
• Surveyor’s Office, District of Columbia, [33], [69].
• Suter’s Tavern, [19].
• Taft, President William Howard, [91], [263], [279], [331].
• Taft, Mrs. William Howard, [157].
• Taft, William Howard, Bridge, [159], [284].
• Thomas, Havard, sculptor, [343].
• Thornton, Dr. William, [42], [173], [185], [190], [197], [219].
• Tiber Creek, [37].
• Tobacco barn, old (original Christ Church), [188].
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, [296], [315].
• Town House site, [32].
• Treasury, Department of the, [48], [267], [271].
• Trees of Washington, [63], [111].
• Triangle development, [301].
• Trinity College, [279].
• Tripoli Column, [319].
• Trowbridge, Alexander B., [252].
• Trowbridge & Livingston, architects, [275].
• Tudor Place, [182], [185].
• Union Army, the, Grand Review of, [57].
• Union Square, [87].
• Union Station, [84], [235]-[241].
• Union Station, Plaza of, [103], [301].
• United States Botanic Garden, [296].
• United States Engineer Office, [113].
• United States Naval Academy, [319].
• United States Supreme Court Building, [296], [301].
• Unknown Soldier, the:
• Burial of, [135].
• Tomb of, [142], [296], [315].
• Van Ness Mansion, [177], [276].
• Vedder, Elihu, painter, [245].
• Virginia:
• Offer of Legislature of, [6].
• Part of District of Columbia receded to, [51].
• Wakefield National Memorial Association, [127], [129].
• Wakefield, Va.:
• Ancestors of Washington settle at, [10].
• Birthplace of George Washington, [127].
• Walter Reed General Hospital, [284], [296].
• Walter, Thomas U., [86], [219], [224], [268].
• War Department Building, [296].
• Ward, John Quincy Adams, sculptor, [5].
• Warden, David Baillie, [41].
• Washington:
• Early, [35].
• 1810-1815, [41].
• 1816-1839, [45].
• 1840-1859, [49].
• 1860-1870, [53].
• Improvements made in, during administration of President Grant, [61].
• Metropolitan area of, [105].
• Washington, Col. John, [10].
• Washington, Judge Bushrod, [126].
• Washington, President George:
• Appoints Commissioners of the District of Columbia, [13].
• Arrives at Suter’s Tavern, Georgetown, [19].
• Birthplace of, [127].
• Capitol, cornerstone of, lays, [219], [228].
• Confers with Commissioners of the District of Columbia, [20].
• Federal City, site for, authorized to select, [7], [8].
• Home of, [121].
• Inauguration of, [5].
• L’Enfant, high regard of, for, [24].
• Potomac Canal, constructs, [4], [151].
• Statues of, [5], [319], [321].
• Trowel used at laying of cornerstone of Capitol by, [117], [118].
• Washington Aqueduct, [57].
• Washington Cathedral, [284].
• Washington Channel and water front, [113].
• Washington City Post Office, [241].
• Washington Meridian, [159].
• Washington Monument, the:
• Detailed description of, [197].
• Laying cornerstone of, [49], [202].
• Washington National Airport, [117].
• Washington National Monument Society, [199], [209].
• Webster-Ashburton treaty, tablet commemorating, [268].
• Webster, Daniel:
• Capitol extension, orator at laying of cornerstone of, [9], [219].
• Describes General Jackson, [135].
• Residence of, [179].
• White House, the:
• Early description of, [41], [171], [173].
• Later description of, [261].
• Weinman, A. A., sculptor, [277], [303].
• White, Stanford, architect, [325].
• Wilson, James, Secretary of Agriculture, [161].
• Wilson, President Woodrow, [243], [288].
• Winter, Ezra, painter, [276].
• Winthrop, Robert C., [202], [209].
• Witherspoon, John, statue of, [326].
• Wood, Waddy B., architect, [276].
• World’s Columbian Exposition, [65].
• World War, influence on Washington, [101], [293].
• World War Memorials in Europe, [99].
• Wyeth, Nathan C., architect, [284].
• Wyeth & Sullivan, architects, [235].
• York & Sawyer, architects, [279].
• Zantzinger, Borie & Medary, architects, [284].
• Zero Milestone, [333].
• Zoning of the Capital, [101], [108].
• Zoning Commission, [103]
• Zoological Park, National, [159], [256], [257], [284].

---