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avenues, is one of the most artistic structures 

 of its kind in the world. The designers aimed 

 to make this depot a real portal of the capital, 

 and it represents a harmonious blending of 

 biuuty, utility and spaciousness. It is built 

 entirely of granite. At the main entrance there 

 are six massive columns, and these are sur- 

 mounted by statues eighteen feet in height ; the 

 two central ones represent Freedom and Imagi- 

 nation, and the others, Prometheus (fire), 



public building in the world. It represents a 

 combination of classical and Spanish Renais- 

 sance styles (see illustration, page 4476). The 

 cost of the building $750,000 was defrayed by 

 Andrew Carnegie; the grounds are valued at 

 $250,000. Other notable edifices of the N. W. 

 section are the white marble Municipal Build- 

 ing of the District of Columbia, at 14th Street 

 and Pennsylvania Avenue, and the $1,000,000 

 Scottish Rite Temple, at 16th and S streets. 



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THE CENTER OF WASHINGTON 



( 1 ) Weather Bureau 



(2) Department of Commerce 



and Census Bureau 



(3) Government Printing Office 



(4) Postoffice Department 



( 5 ) State, War and Navy Build- 



ing 



(6) White House (Executive 



Mansion) 



( 7 ) Department of the Treasury 



(8) Department of the In- 



terior and Patent Office 



(9) Pension Office 



(10) Union Station 



(11) Department of Labor 



(12) Senate Office Building 



(13) Capitol 



(14) Department of Agriculture 



(15) Washington Monument 



(16) Smithsonian Institution 



(17) Library of Congress 



(18) House Office Building 



(19) Washington Circle 



(20) Thomas Circle 



(21) Executive Grounds 



(22) Lincoln Square 



(23) Navy Yard 



(24) Botanical Garden 



(For description, seepage 6194), 



Thales (electricity), Ceres (agriculture) and 

 Archimedes (mechanics). In front of the 

 building stands a beautiful memorial fountain 

 to Columbus. The District and city post office, 

 adjacent to the Union Station, is another struc- 

 ture of great artistic beauty. It is built of 

 white marble in the Corinthian style of archi- 

 tecture, and was completed in 1916. 



The building of the Pan-American Union, at 

 17th and B streets, N. W., has been described 

 by a great French architect as combining, in 

 proportion to its cost, beauty of architecture 

 and practical usefulness more tkan any other 



The tallest structure in the city, Washington 

 Monument, is described and illustrated in these 

 volumes under its title. 



Parks. Though space for large park areas 

 was not mapped out in the original city plans, 

 there are several thousand acres of parked land 

 in Washington and the adjoining regions. The 

 city is beautified by numerous open spaces at 

 street intersections, and the grounds of the 

 Union Station, the Capitol and other buildings 

 are really beautiful parks on a small scale. 

 Sixteen hundred acres of wild and romantic 

 country in the Rock Creek Valley have been 



