The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-11
BUILDINGS BILL
| To COME UP
AGAIN
Program viii Provide $780,
600, 900 for Federal Struc-
lures jim District

Tor the District or Columbia, su1
ficfent to take care of every gov
eminent department and bureau
based upon the 1917 buildings plan
with necessary odifications, dur
ing the coming session, II plans
now being formulated can be car
ried out.
House and Senate leaders have
pledged themselves to reintroduce
the $50, 100000 public buildings
program, which passed the House
last year, soon after Congress con.
venes in December. This bill VIII
make available for the District $780,
900 900, and viii necessitate adop-
ton of q comprehensive building
plan before expenditures are made.
Specific Buildings Asked.
Plans are being made to ask Con.
Hress for immediate construction OF
specific buildings, regardless or the
fate of the general building bill.
The Department of Agriculture and
the Bureau of Internal Revenue
will be provided for in separate
buildings bills. Senator Smoct, OF
Utah. chairman of the Senate Cons
mittee on public buildings and
grounds, is expected to reintroduce
his biz providing $6,250,00O for con.
struction Of a modern fireproof or
fice type building for the Bureau
OF Internal Revenue.
Officials of the Department OF
Agriculture will present plan Ior
centraIizing housing OF the deparr
ment offices, including completion
of the main building in the Mali.
This plan viii cost from $6,eOV,OVV
to $500, 900, it - stated, depending
VNlo n
der consideration is adopted.
New Museum Wanted.
senator Smoot also viii intro
duce q bill providing for construc-
ton Of a great new museum build
ing just east of the lew Natlona
Museum to house the National Gal
lery Of Art and the history collec-
tons.
mission win introduce bill pro-
viding for construction of an annex
to the present House Office build
ing. at a cost Of approximately
So 900 900.
CONGRESSMAN Charles L. Under
hill is seeking to guarantee carry
ing out of the 1917 building plan
and with this in view viii reintro-
duce his bill providing $4,000, 900
for purchase of all land between
Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall
from the Capitol to the Treasury.
The bill was unanimously approved
by the House District Committee
last February,
One Of the most vital portions
Of the 1917 plan already has been
approved by Congress and will
again be ratified this winter, II
is expected. This feature is the
construction OF monumental lsuilds
ings for the Departments Of Justice,
Commerce and Labor between Four
tenth and Fifteenth streets north
west. from Pennsylvania avenue
south to the Mall. The sites have
been acquired by the government
and architects plans for the group
OF buildings have been completed.
Street Corner Changes Necessary.
The new Department of Justice
building, to be located as the
northern unit Of the group, viii
cost more than $780, 900, If con-
structed Of granite, according 10
the present plans. The building
would be four stories high and
would have a floor space Of 1884,
500 square feet, The building nd
its grounds would occupy the area
from street north to Pennsyl.
vania avenue, between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. u street
would be closed and converted in
to a portion OF the SITE In front
OF the building, along Pennsyl-
vania avenue, would be 4 park
area similar to that in front OF the
District building.
would be moved about 80 feet to
the south and Ohio avenue closed,
the entire block, enlarged by moving
Of &C street, being given over 10 the
Department of Labor. The Depart
ment of Commerce would be con-
structed between B and c streets
and Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets.
Block Is Reserved.
The block south of the District
building Is reserved in this plan
for q District. building annex, TO
house the traffic bureau and other
municipal activities, a part Of Ohio
avenue being. closed for this pur:
pose. ~
south of the District building
annex, in the square now. occupied
OJ Inc EOtOII4GC GA4CCLAA@ GO"SE SouA-
pany, space is reserved for ExDan-
sion Of the. Department Of Com
merce.
The two squares south of the
Southern Railway building, between
Thirteenth and Thirteenth-and-a-
Half STREETS, are designated for
office buildings for the Interstate
Commerce Commission, the Ship
ping Board, the Civil Services Com.
mission an dthe Tariff Commission.
Facing on Pennsylvania avenue
streets and extending south to c
street is ODE a great National
Guard ArmorY OF granite, over
shadowing even the great Postoffice
Department building in the next
square asst.
Archives Building.
The proposed archives building is
to be constructed between Twelfth
and Thirteenth. mad B and c streets
northwest .....
South Of the Postofifce building,
extending from Tenth to Twelfth
streets between Little B and C
streets, will be the proposed Audi.
tors building and bewteen Little B
and B an open park space.
The block just east of the Post
office Department, now occdpied by
Harvey's restaurant and the Presi-
dent Theater. is reserved for postal
expansion.
ings under. the. proposed plan will
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