Identifier: picturesquewas00moor (find matches)
Title: Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments ..
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Moore, Joseph West
Subjects: Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: Providence : J.A. & R.A. Reid
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h concrete or asphalt, and are verysmooth and well kept. Carriage-riding through the centre of thecity and on the principal streets of residences is delightful, becausethe smooth, elastic pavements prevent jolting. The heavy traffic isconfined as much as possible to certain streets which have stonepavements, which prevents the concreted streets from being rapidlyworn out. The streets are laid out at right angles from the Capitol, which islocated in nearly the centre of the city ; the avenues cross the streetsdiagonally. North Capitol, South Capitol, and East Capitol streets,and the Mall, which extends from the Capitol grounds west to Fif-teenth Street and takes the place of West Capitol Street, divideWashington into four cardinal sections. The streets extending northand south of the Capitol are designated by numerals, and are knownas First Street east. First Street west, etc. Those extending eastand west are lettered, and are known as A Street north, A Street THE PRINCIPAL AVENUES. 57
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THE BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD DEPOT. south, etc. The aggregate length of streets is 279 miles ; of ave-nues, 65 miles. The wide avenues, with their concrete pavement, the principal onesextending in an almost straight line for several miles, are among theprominent attractions of Washington. On pleasant days they arefull of gay equipages, and present a very brilliant appearance. Theycommand extensive prospects, and on many of them the view is un-broken as far as the eye can reach. Pennsylvania Avenue is one of the longest in the city, and themost prominent. It is four and one-half miles in length, but its con-tinuity is twice broken, once by the White House and Treasury, andagain by the Capitol. It begins at Rock Creek, which separatesWashington from Georgetown, passes the Washington Circle, theState, War, and Navy Building, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, theWhite House, Lafayette Park, and the Treasury. From FifteenthStreet to the Capitol it extends a mile through the finest busines

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