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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
USE AND DESIGN OF THE SMALL PARKS OF WASHINGTON, D. C 
The city plan of the National Capital, embodying 
a system of avenues radiating like spokes of a wheel 
from the capitol and the White House as centers, su- 
perimposed on a checker-board of cross streets at right 
angles makes many small parks, squares, triangles and 
circles at street intersections that give a distinctive 
character to the city’s park system, and render a most 
useful service as breathing spots and sites for mon- 
uments and public fountains. 
Washington being naturally the mecca for public 
memorials of departed heroes, it is extremely fortu- 
nate in having such opportunity for their proper set- 
ting. It would be difificult to imagine a more favored 
site for a public monument than that offered the Logan 
statue in Iowa Circle, where eight streets give ap- 
proach to the round spot of turf and planting that 
covers their intersecting points. Dupont Circle is 
similarly situated at the converging point of ten 
streets. 
There are 305 of these areas, varying in size from 
250 square feet to 82 acres under the general super- 
vision of the Chief of Engineers of the United States 
army, and directly administered by the Office of Pub- 
lic Buildings and Grounds, in charge of Col. Charles 
S. Bromwell, U. S. A. The planting and landscape 
work is in charge of Mr. George H. Brown, the land- 
scape gardener of the department. 
The reservations are classified as follows in the last 
annual report of the department ; Highly improved, 
108; partially improved, 112; unimproved, 85. The 
total area covered by the park spaces of the District 
of Columbia in charge of this office is 469.3 acres. 
