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Map - Arlington National Cemetery, Sheridan Gate, Arlington, Arlington County, VA
Photographer
Schara, Mark, creator
Title
Map - Arlington National Cemetery, Sheridan Gate, Arlington, Arlington County, VA
Description
Hadfield, George; Hoban, James; Meigs, Montgomery C; Casey, Thomas Lincoln; Smithmeyer, John L; Charles A. Schnieder and Sons; Chiffelle, Thomas P; Schara, Mark, project manager; Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter; Price, Virginia Barrett, historian
Depicted place Virginia; Arlington County; Arlington
Date 2012
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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 VA,7-ARL,11B- (sheet 2 of 5)
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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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  • For photographs of the gate, see HABS VA-1348-C.
  • Significance: In the aftermath of the War of 1814, President Madison and his government faced the task of resurrecting many of the public buildings in George Washington's federal city. The Irish-born architect, James Hoban, oversaw much of the restoration, including the President's Mansion and its ancillary Executive Department buildings. Between 1818 and 1820, Hoban and his stonemasons were put to work on the construction of two new Executive Department office buildings located on the north side of the President's Mansion. Gracing the north elevation of each structure was an Ionic portico. Based on similarities in design, it is likely that the men who carved the ornament seen on the White House today also fashioned the columns and entablature of the 1818-20 office buildings. In 1879, Montgomery C. Meigs initiated the transfer of the six columns from the north portico of the condemned 1818-20 War Department building to Arlington National Cemetery and used for the construction of the Sheridan and the Ord-Weitzel gateways. He did so to "[preserve] these historic columns, among which have moved the chief soldiers of the Army and the chiefs of the War Department during the last sixty years, [...]." As formal points of entry into the park-like cemetery, the gateways represented the influence of neoclassicism in federal America and its resurgence as a stylistic revival late in the nineteenth century.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N700
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1808
  • Survey number: HABS VA-1348-B
  • Building/structure dates: 1818- 1820 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1879 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1971 Demolished
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va1845.sheet.00002a
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