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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^ located on the broad plateau inthe eastern section, and the Executive Mansion and the other publicbuildings were located in the western section, more than a mile dis-tant. In one of his letters Washington says that this wide separa-tion of Congress and the Executive departments was intended toprevent members of Congress from too frequently visiting the vari-ous departments. LEnfants design meeting the full approval ofWashington, and also of Jefferson, then Secretary of State, of whomit was said that he almost monopolized the artistic taste and knowl-edge of the first administration, it was formally adopted, and theyoung Frenchman was engaged to superintend its execution. Hehad as assistant, Andrew Ellicott, a bright Pennsylvanian, who with PLAN OF THE FEDERAL CITY. 29
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\AN NESS -M. his brother had estabHshed the town of ElHcott Mills, in Maryland.Ellicott was a competent surveyor, and a young man of remarkableintelligence. Later in life he became professor of mathematics atWest Point. The streets and squares of the city were chiefly laid outby him, and under his direction the work progressed quite rapidly.Before the erection of any building was allowed an exact survey wasmade and properly recorded, and all subsequent building operationshad to conform to this survey. The states of Maryland and Virginia were greatly interested inthe founding of the seat of the national government within theirborders, and generously voted a large sum of money as a gift tothe United States, to aid in the erection of the public edifices. After-ward, when it was necessary to obtain more money to carry on thework, and Congress was strangely dilatory in making an appropria-tion, and European bankers had declined to advance funds to thecommissioners, the legislature of Maryl

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