The Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia: I.--Report of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia. II.--Report of the Park CommissionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1902 - 179 стор. |
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Сторінка 18 - That the park system of the District of Columbia is hereby placed under the exclusive charge and control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War.
Сторінка 10 - December 13, 1791, was at that time the most comprehensive plan ever designed for a city : "[T]he whole city was planned with a view to the reciprocal relations that should be maintained among public buildings. Vistas and axes ; sites for monuments and museums, parks and pleasure gardens ; fountains and canals — in a word, all that goes to make a city a magnificent and consistent work of art were regarded as essential." Caemmerer, Washington, The National Capital 25 ( 1932 ) ( S. Doc. No. 332,...
Сторінка 18 - The said park system shall be held to comprise : (a) All public spaces laid down as reservations on the map of eighteen hundred and ninety-four accompanying the annual report for eighteen hundred and ninetyfour of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds: (b) All portions of the space in the streets and avenues of the said District, after the same shall have been set aside by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for park purposes. Profidi'd, That no areas less than two hundred...
Сторінка 10 - L'Enfant, a man of position and education and an engineer of ability, must have been familiar with those great works of the master Lenotre, which A TWENTIETH CENTURY CAPITAL are still the admiration of the traveler and the constant pleasure of the French people. Moreover, from his well-stocked library Jefferson sent to L'Enfant plans 'on a large and accurate scale...
Сторінка 26 - The original plans of Washington show the high appreciation L'Enfant had for all forms of water decoration ; and when the heats of a Washington summer are taken into consideration, further argument is unnecessary to prove that the first and greatest step in the matter of beautifying the District of Columbia is such an increase in the water supply as will make possible the copious and even lavish use of water in fountains.
Сторінка 68 - The location of the building to contain the Executive offices 31 32 is a more difficult matter; but the Commission are of the opinion that while temporary quarters may well be constructed in the grounds of the White House, a building sufficient in size to accommodate those offices may best be located in the center of Lafayette Square. This suggestion must be taken in connection with the full development of the plan outlined below.
Сторінка 9 - Massachusetts, be selected as experts with power to add to their number. These gentlemen accepted the task and subsequently invited Charles F. McKim, architect, and Augustus SaintGaudens, sculptor, of New York City, to act with them in the preparation of plans.
Сторінка 24 - Potomac banks from unhealthful conditions gives opportunity for enlarging the scope of the earlier plans in a manner corresponding to the growth of the country. At the same time the development of Potomac Park both provides for a connection between the parks on the west and those on the east, and also it may readily furnish...
Сторінка 40 - Public walk, being a square of 1200 feet, through which carriages may ascend to the upper square of the Federal House. H. A grand avenue 400 feet in breadth, and about a mile in length, bordered with gardens ending in a slope from the houses on each side: this avenue leads to the monument A. and connects the Congress garden with the I.
Сторінка 15 - The commission, in order to make a closer study of the practice of landscape architecture as applied to parks and public buildings, made a brief trip to Europe, visiting Rome, Venice, Vienna, Budapest, Paris, London, and their suburbs.