s Saint-Gaudens, was created, by a resolution of the UnitedStates Senate, for the purpose of obtaining a planwhich would enable the future development ofWashington to proceed on artistic as well as orderlylines, and a year later a comprehensive, thoughtfuland well-.studied report was rendered.… … made in the last six years can be attributed to itsinspiration, for like all great movements this ofcivic betterment has been in a measure spontaneousin inception, but it may safely be said that muchcan be traced to its source, and that many citieshave profited by it to even a greater e.xtent…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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