Word: mountings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...
...birthplace; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has just purchased 267 acres of the estate, on which the old house will be reproduced at a cost of about half a million dollars. When it is completed, together with the Strothers Farm, which it is hoped to have rebuilt, and with Mount Vernon, there will be three important shrines of the nation's hero...
...part of the general plan of development, Congress readily appropriated $4,250,000 to construct a boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon, along the bank of the Potomac, by which pilgrims from all over the land may have easy access to Washington's homes...
Moreover, "no plan for the development of the region between Mount Auburn Street and the Charles River should be considered which is not the result of long study, and of planning ahead for the future," writes Chairman Pond. After stating its hypothesis of a new and second Yard, the Council report reads, "The plan attached is merely a rough sketch intended to portray the Council's ideas. It does not pretend to be final or entirely accurate. The whole scheme should be gone over by competent architectural and landscape advisors. It is the basic idea which we consider sound...
...most obvious obstacles to the plan is the difference in the space between Mount Auburn Street and the Freshman Halls and the Stretch between Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...