The development of Washington with special reference to the Lincoln memorial (1911)
Brown, Glenn, 1854-1932, Washington Chamber of Commerce (D.C.) · Washington, D.C., Chamber of commerce of Washington, D.C · leaf 13
dings forlegislative purposes should be grouped around the Capitol, the Executive Department build-ings around the White House and the Scientific Departments of the Government should facethe Mall. The center of the Mall from the Monument to the Capitol will be a carpet of greenthree hundred feet… … FiGUKE 4. General Plan of Mall, the Lincoln Memorial is a broad canal two hundred feet wide flanked on either side bydense forests. (Figure 4.) In addition to the enclosure of the Capitol Grounds by classic structures on three sides,a terrace is proposed on the west facing Union Square where the…
Lincoln Memorial (Washington, D.C.) · Parks · Art, Municipal
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