Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this edifice is the edge of the cherry-rimmed Tidal Basin, directly on the North-South axis from the White House through the Washington Monument. The building will serve no purpose other than to house a monumental statue of Thomas Jefferson similar to the one now in the Capitol. To give the building due impressiveness, the irregular Tidal Basin will be drained, its cherry trees uprooted and transplanted. Three formal reflecting pools will be constructed to take the Basin's place, new streets will have to be built and paved, new traffic arteries allocated. Washington engineers estimate that nearly...
...utilitarian memorial would be undignified. The temple at its proposed location will complete the fifth focal point of Major Pierre L'Enfant's famed 18th-Century plan of Washington, the Capitol, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial and White House forming the other four. Emperor Hadrian's Pantheon was dear to Thomas Jefferson. Monticello, his own home, and the Rotunda of the University of Virginia are adaptations of its design...
...third day they reviewed the midshipmen at Annapolis (21 guns). The Governor-General attended a luncheon given by British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay (while Lady Tweedsmuir was the luncheon guest of Madam Secretary Perkins), went to the Capitol, heard some of Vice President Garner's most risible stories, addressed the U. S. Senate and shook the hands of all its members, did it all over again in the House, returned to the White House for tea, said goodby, took his lady to dinner at the Canadian Legation as guest of Sir Herbert Marler, then tumbled into a Pullman...
...Thomas J. Walsh-she turned her talents to entertaining. At her home, "Uplands" on Foxhall Road her Sunday night entertainments featured the political lions of Washington. There, on spring evenings, looking across the lawns towards the lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood Broun, or George Creel and David Lawrence...
...Passed a bill that provides for a 84,000,000 face-lifting operation on the Capitol. To achieve architectural symmetry and uniformity of construction, the bill proposes to move the east fagade with its famed portico forward from 12 to 32 ft. and reface the white painted sandstone with white marble to match the Senate and House wings. The main section of the building between the two wings, although it has been altered, is virtually all that remains of the Capitol as it was planned in 1793. Since the great cast-iron dome was built in the 1850s to replace...