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Title: History of the Washington arch in Washington square, New York, including the ceremonies of laying the corner-stone and the dedication.
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: Washington Arch (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: New York, Ford & Garnet
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ening being the most striking, though not themost important. No Arch of antiquity containing butone opening has a span as great as that at New York,the nearest approach to it being the Arch at Aosta,which has a span of about 29 feet 8 inches. TheArch at Salonika has its central opening 36 feet wide,which is the largest span of all Roman TriumphalArches. This, however, is a construction with threeopenings. In architectural treatment the Washington 35 Arch differs from its classical predecessors in beinggenerally lighter, in the prominence of the frieze, inthe reduced height of the attic, and lastly, and mostimportant, in the absence of the Orders. Of the fewremaining Roman examples of Arches without Orders,perhaps the best known is that of Alcantra. The following are the dimensions of the Washing-ton Arch : Total height 73 feet 6 inches. Total width 56 10 Width of piers 13 5 Depth of piers 17 1 o Width of opening 30 o Height of opening 47 9 STANFORD WHITE. / West 20th St., New York. 36
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LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE ARCH,MAY 30, 1890. PROGRAMME. 1. Arrival of Memorial Arch Committee, escorted by the First Brigade, N. G., S. N. Y., Brigadier General Louis Fitzgerald, Commanding. 2. Prayer, . . Right Rev. Henry C. Potter. 3. Hymn, . . Robert Underwood Johnson. Arranged from Haydn.Chorus conducted by Frank H. Damrosch. 4. Address, .... Henry G. Marouand, Chairman of the Washington Memorial Arch Committee. 5. Address, .... Waldo Hutchins. 6. Address, . . . George William Curtis. 7. Laying the Corner-Stone, . by John W. Vrooman) Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York. 8. Hymn, America, .... Chorus. 37 CEREMONIES. NDER the wide-spreading branches of the two ven-erable elms in Washington Square, just oppositethe entrance to Fifth Avenue, was laid the corner-stoneof the Washington Memorial Arch. Around the square block of granite were groupedthe officers of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the Stateof New York, and it was by the beautiful ritual oftheir order that the

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