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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the government, but early in 1885 it will remove to the new Pension THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. 219
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NORTH IIAI.r., MUSEUM OF MODELS, PATENT OFFICE. Building now in process of construction on Judiciary Square, near GStreet. The new building will resemble the great Italian palaces,and will have many unique forms of architecture. It will be con-structed of fine pressed brick with terra cotta mouldings, and will ex-tend 400 feet from east to west, and 200 feet from north to south, andthe walls will be seventy-five feet high. The walls will surround alarge interior court-yard, which will have a high roof of iron andglass, and be crowned with a dome. Two tiers of galleries will ex-tend around the court-yard, by which access will be gained to therooms. On the first story there will be a course of terra cotta extend-ing entirely around the building, consisting of a band three feet wide,on which various scenes and incidents of a soldiers life will be repre-sented in finely sculptured figures. The building will cost about$500,000. The General Land Office, which has charge of all the pub-lic l

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