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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at Georgetown, . . . . 275 Howard University, . . . . . . . . -277 Mount Vernon, from the Potomac, ...... 278 The Mount Vernon Mansion — the Home of Washington, . 281 The Eastern Portico, Mount Vernon, ..... 283 The Old Tomb at Mount Vernon, ...... 286 The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon, .... 287 Washingtons Bed-chamber, ....... 290 Martha Washingtons Bed-chamber, . . . . . . 291 The Hall at Mount Vernon, ....... 293 Banquet-Hall, or State Parlor, Mount Vernon, . . . 295 The Senator Bayard Mansion, ....... 297 The Smithsonian Institution, ....... 299 The English Legation Building, ...... 301 The Franklin School Building, ....... 302 Statue of Freedom, ...... Front Cover. PLANS AND MAP. PAGE. PLAN OF THE PRINCIPAL STORY OF THE CAPITOL, . . . . SSPLAN OF THE BASEMENT STORY OF THE CAPITOL, . . . .104 PLAN OF THE SENATE CHAMBER, 117 PLAN OF THE HALL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, . 127 PLAN OF THE ATTIC STORY OF THE CAPITOL, 134 MAP OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON, . . . . •. . .303 fpl
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y g CHAPTER I. THE WASHINGTON OF TO-DAY —A BEAUTIFUL CITY OF PARKS AND PALACES —ITS LOCATION ON THE POTOMAC RIVER —THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA —EARLY TRADITIONS AND HISTORICAL STATEMENTS — SELECTION OF THEFEDERAL TERRITORY —A REMARKABLE PIECE OF POLITICAL HISTORY. STANDING upon the lofty, green-clad hills of Virginia whichconstitute the historic Arlington estate, a magnificent panoramais unfolded as the eye sweeps northward and eastward overthe picturesque region of the District of Columbia. Two hun-dred feet below, the beautiful Potomac River, released from the moun-tain ranges that have closely restrained its silvery stream for over ahundred miles, quickly expands into a broad sheet of placid waterand glides onward to the main, bearing many a richly freighted craft.From the circling heights of the northern part of the District to theriver banks on the south, as far as the eye can reach, are ponderousdomes and majestic spires, countless turrets and roof-tops, emerald-tinted

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