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Identifier: guidetowashingto01balt (find matches)
Title: Guide to Washington
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York, American bank note co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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.cture. In addition to the stairway in the centre of the shaft is anelevator. The corner stone was laid July 4th, 1S48. The funds wereIxhausted and work suspended before the civil war culminated,hut Congress having made an appropriation for the purpose, workwas rec<jmmenced, and the shaft completed at a height of 555 feet,on Dec. 6th, 1S84. The capstone is a cuneiform keystone, five feet,two and a half inches from base to top, and weighs 3,300 pounds. THE PRESIDENTS HOUSE. The Presidents House is located on the government reservation,called Presidents Grounds, with a frontage on Pennsylvania Ave-nue. It is in the centre of a twenty-acre plat, which is tastefully laidout with flower-beds, trees, shrubbery and well kept lawns. At therear of the house is a park sloping gradually to the river bank. Inthe summer the mansion is almost hid by the expansive foliage fromthe stately oaks, sycamores and poplars which adorn the grounds.Ihc building was designed by an Irishman, James Hoban, and
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is said to In- in general style similar to the residence of the Duke ofLeinster, Dublin. The Presidents House is also called the Executive Mansion andthe White House, the latter being the most used. The building istwo stories high, one hundred and seventy feet long, and eighty-sixfeet wide. A large portico supported by eight pillars extends outon the north, under which carriages drive. The State Parlors are on the first floor, and are reached from thegreat vestibule into which tlie main entrance door opens. The East Room, originally intended for a ball room, is the largestapartment in the house, and is of the Grecian style of architecture,richly ornamented. The ceilings arc lofty and arc divided into threepanels highly decorated, and in the centre of each hangs a massivecrystal chandelier. Numerous expensive mirrors supported by carvedmantels are located at difFerent parts of the room, and the furnitureand hangings are most elaborate. A full length portrait of Wash-ington, by Gilbert

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