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A manual on the origin and development of Washington

Chapter 156: INDEX
By H. Paul Caemmerer
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This manual presents a chronological, illustrated study of the United States capital's founding, planning, and growth. It traces site selection, L'Enfant's plan and Ellicott's revisions, boundary stones, and nineteenth-century development, then examines twentieth-century reforms led by the McMillan Commission, the Commission of Fine Arts, and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, including zoning and public-building programs. Separate chapters survey parks, monuments, major public and semipublic buildings, Arlington National Cemetery, and architectural history. Appendices provide lists of statues, presidents, quotations, and a bibliography. Designed for classroom use, the text emphasizes civic education and includes maps, plans, and illustrations to support study.

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.