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General Plan for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol Grounds – Antique Print

General Plan for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol Grounds — historic image
General Plan for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol Grounds. Historic image from the Washington DC collection.

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A window into the past: General Plan for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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General Plan for the Extension of the U.S. Capitol Grounds

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Rather than a building or a crowd, this record documents a design: a general plan for enlarging the grounds around the U.S. Capitol. Plans like it grew out of late nineteenth-century debate over how the national seat of government should look, at a time when the land around the Capitol was still cluttered with rail lines, sheds, and irregular lots. Landscape designers of the period, including Frederick Law Olmsted, proposed broad lawns, tree-lined walks, and open sightlines to set off the building and its dome. These ideas fed into the 1901 to 1902 McMillan Plan, which shaped the Capitol grounds and the National Mall for generations.

Original scan6,277 × 8,228 px · prints to 21 × 27 in at 300 dpi
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