All (A)liqui' view of the Mall area, /hawn in 1921. On tlir 

 south side of the Mall, the Army Medical Museum {now 

 replaced by the Hirshhorn Museum) stood on the site oj the 

 Armory, used for storage. The B ureau of Fisheries site is 

 now under the National Air and Spare Museum. The 

 compiler has lejt out the courtyards of the Natural Histoiy 

 Building, while towers and turrets on the Arts and 

 Industries Building and on the Castle have been extended 

 considerably. To the north of the Castle, the Freer Gallery, 



as yet unopened, also hu ks a courtyard. Still father north 

 along the Mall ivere several scattered buildings of the 

 Department of Agriculture, with experimental plantings 

 where the National Museum of American History now 

 stands. The Mall was not as heavily wooded as shown, but 

 did have far more trees than today. {From Wasliington, 

 the Beautiful Capital of the Nation, copyright 1922 by 

 William Olsen, National Aero-Vieiv Publishing Company, 

 Washington, B.C.) 



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