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PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF CENOTAPHS ALONG ROADWAY - Congressional Cemetery, Latrobe Cenotaphs, Eighteenth and E Streets, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Boucher, Jack E.

Related names:

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry
U.S. Congress
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Title
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF CENOTAPHS ALONG ROADWAY - Congressional Cemetery, Latrobe Cenotaphs, Eighteenth and E Streets, Southeast, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date 1980
date QS:P571,+1980-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC,WASH,255-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: These cenotaphs were designed by noted architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1815 as memorials to congressmen who died in office. Although several hundred o the monuments were reacted,less than eighty bodies of congressmen and prominent citizens were interred under them. Their use was discontinued in 1877 after a senator remarked that being buried beneath one would add a new terror to death.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-44
  • Survey number: HABS DC-424
  • Building/structure dates: 1815 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0394.photos.379098p
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Camera location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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