Author: Frederick Loviad HarveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
History of the Washington National Monument and of the Washington National Monument Society
Author: Frederick Loviad HarveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Writings on American History, 1902
Author: Ernest Cushing RichardsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: History of the Washington National Monument and Washington National Monument Society
Author: Frederick Loviad HarveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington
Author: Louis TorresPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907521287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
Author: Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the [the Fifty-third] Congress [to the 76th Congress] and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
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Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C.
Author: Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813906416
Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description