Photo bv ]•:. L. Ciaiidall 



WASHINGTON IS A CITY OF COLUMNS 



Few cities have borrowed so extensively as Washington from the architectural achieve- 

 ments of the past. The employment of the column in its public architecture is notable. A 

 few there are of the ornate Corinthian design, and a considerable number of the stern and 

 uncornpromising Doric ; but most of them express that delicate blending of the ornate and 

 the simple that we find in the Ionian. The architectural messages of the Parthenon, the 

 tomb of Halicarnassus, the Pantheon, and many other famous edifices of the past have been 

 translated into American stone and marble and made to enrich the beauty of a beautiful 

 capital. This is a view from the steps of the D. A. R. Building (see also page 265). 



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