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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: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tthews, and a large number of other prominent men, and those ofmost of the high government officials, and the leading officers of thearmy and navy. Here are the foreign legation buildings, and herethe leaders of society have congregated under splendid roof-trees.On every side is a dazzling spectacle of luxury and grandeur, andone can obtain, by a stroll through the avenues and streets, a realiza-tion of the enormous wealth that is centering in Washington at thepresent time. Those competent to judge express the opinion that inless than ten years every portion of this district, extensive as it is,will be covered with magnificent buildings, and that it will be verilya region of palaces. Before the capital celebrates its centennial, itis likely that the West End will have obtained great fame as one ofthe finest resident sections in the world. Fashion has firmly set its seal upon this district, and all those im-provements which come with opulence are lavished upon it. The THE WEST END. 241
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THE JAMES G. BLAINE MANSION. mansions here are constructed of marble, costly greenstone, and finepressed brick, and are so arranged as to secure the highest quality ofartistic work. The architecture includes many forms of the antiqueand the mediaeval, and the most approved modern styles. The inte-riors are remarkable for special methods of ornamentation, for mar-bles and bronzes, for carvings and paintings, and exquisite cabinetwork. Europe and the Orient are searched for designs and sub-stances, and apparently there is no limit as to cost. It is a common saying of the citizens that Washington is destinedto be the most popular winter resort of the continent, on account ofits genial climate and the host of attractions it furnishes not to be ob-tained elsewhere, and that year by year greater numbers of Northern 16 242 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. people of wealth and leisure will take up their residence in it. Peoplewho wish to escape the rigorous northern, winter, and at the sametime have t

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