Philp's Washington described. A complete view of the American Capital, and the District of Columbia; with many notices, historical, topographical, and scientific, of the seat of government (1861)
New York, Rudd & Carleton; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.; [etc., etc.] · leaf 146
134 ■WASHINGTON DESCRIBED. … series of attached columns, with large windows in the interspaces, giving ample light to the rotunda. Above this colonnade a dome will spring, which, con¬ tracting to a space of sixty -five feet in diameter, will, through its opening, permit the eye to see another and lighter colonnade at a higher…
Washington (D.C.) -- Description and travel
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