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...called "The Hill." About a mile west and north he set the President's House, connecting them with a broad avenue (Pennsylvania). From the Capitol and from the President's House (later the White House) were to radiate other avenues cutting the city's network of smaller streets. A parkway or Mall was to sweep westward from the Capitol to the Potomac. Stately public buildings were to fill the triangle between Pennsylvania Avenue and the Mall. President Washington's watchful eye saw the President's House begun (1792), the Capitol cornerstone laid (1793). But George Washington was dead before...
Other Developments. Between the Capitol and the Union Station are now either vacant lots or ramshackle old buildings, many of them of War-time origin. For five million dollars the U. S. acquired this land to develop it into a connecting parkway, to cut a new avenue through from the station to Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Chrysostom's stands at No. 1424 North Dearborn Parkway, on the edge of Chicago's "Gold Coast." Originally it was a small vine-covered church. Now it looms, magnificently Gothic, splendid rival of St. James, Chicago's other great Episcopalian church...
...proposed also to build a parkway from Fresh Pond Parkway at Mt. Auburn St, to the river at Gerry's Landing and across the river by a new bridge connecting with the present Soldiers Field Road on the Brighton side. This would tend to divert a good deal of traffic which now passes through Mt. Auburn St, in front of the hospitals due to the fact that, at present. Memorial Drive ends opposite Hawthorne...
...another direction worked the American Red Cross, aided by the French Red Cross. Along the Cours la Reine, the Parkway along the Right bank of the Seine, the Red Cross headquarters were set up. There Salvation Army lassies got ready to dole out doughnuts to ex-doughboys and there arose serried rows of first aid and comfort stations. Throughout the capital the French Red Cross erected first aid stations particularly along the route of the proposed triumphal march...