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AERIAL VIEW AT Q STREET, LOOKING EAST - Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Related names:

Olmsted, F L
Partridge, William B
Langden, James G
Jeffers, Thomas
Payne, Irving
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Harvey, Robert, field team project manager
Air Survey Corporation
Boucher, Jack, photographer
Warshaw, Deborah, delineator
Siliwonczuk, Dorota Pape, delineator
Miller, Evan, delineator
Nose, Steven, delineator
Arcaro, Tony, delineator
Davis, Tim, historian
Ross, Amy, historian
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Title
AERIAL VIEW AT Q STREET, LOOKING EAST - Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Taken in 1993
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC,WASH,686-16
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • See also HALS Nos. DC-10 to DC-12 for related documentation.
  • Significance: Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway is significant for its role in the development of Washington, for its status as one of the best-preserved examples of the earliest stage of motor parkway development, and for its physical design, which combines landscape architecture, engineering, and architecture to provide an attractive and useful local park and commuter artery. The parkway played a significant role in the McMillan Commission's 1901-02 plan for the improvement of Washington's parks and public buildings. It was designed to replace a polluted river valley with a picturesque drive and bridle path linking the two main elements of the city's park system. By the time the parkway was completed, the rising popularity of the automobile and rapid suburban growth transformed it into a major commuter route. The parkway's narrow, twisting roadway, with its abrupt entrance roads, long stretches of undivided two-way traffic, and monumental crossing bridges, reflects the earliest era of motor parkway design. The parkway maintains a high degree of historical integrity despite considerable pressure to modernize the roadway during the 1940s-50s.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N161
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N665
  • Survey number: HABS DC-697
  • Building/structure dates: 1936 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0806.photos.047897p
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Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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