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[Parking garage with stores for McLachlen, 10th Street and G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.] – Vintage Photo Print

[Parking garage with stores for McLachlen, 10th Street and G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)." — historic drawing
[Parking garage with stores for McLachlen, 10th Street and G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.], and Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html).". Historic drawing from the Washington DC collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few downtown buildings of its era combined parking and retail as directly as this proposed garage at 10th and G Streets Northwest, which pairs storefronts at street level with floors for parked cars above. As automobiles crowded the city center in the early twentieth century, designs like this tried to keep shops accessible while housing the growing number of vehicles. The drawing is rendered in graphite and color pencil on tracing paper, a common medium for architectural planning. It comes from the Arthur B. Heaton Archive, which preserves the design records of a Washington architect and offers a window into how the capital's commercial streets were imagined.

Created / publishedand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
Medium1 drawing : graphite and color pencil on tracing paper.
GenreTitle devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Arthur B. Heaton Archive.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,292 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-217750

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