A manual on the origin and development of Washington

by H. Paul Caemmerer

OLD BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD STATION

While the centennial exercises were in progress the American Institute of Architects, in session in Washington, discussed the subject of the development of parks and the placing of public buildings; the tentative ideas of a number of the leading architects, sculptors, and landscape architects of the country were heard; and as a result the Institute appointed a committee on legislation. Consultations between that committee and the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia were followed by the order of the Senate for the preparation and submission of a general plan for the development of the entire park system of the District of Columbia.

MODEL OF WASHINGTON SHOWING CONDITIONS IN 1901

MODEL OF THE FUTURE WASHINGTON, PLAN OF 1901

WASHINGTON, FROM ARLINGTON, PLAN OF 1901

Thus, Hon. James McMillan, of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following resolution, which was adopted by the United States Senate on March 8, 1901: