Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-02
ARCHITECTS OFFER
SERVICES TO CITY
Tender Aid to Parks Office in
Effort to Assist in Beau
tifying Capital.

The services and cooperation of the
Allied Architects of Washington were
offered to the director of the office of
public buildings and public parks to-
day and to the city and park planning
committee of the National Capital
Park Commission in the planning OF
public and semi-public work coming
under these two agencies. The offe
was made to Maj. L. S. Grant. 3d. by
John II. de Sibour and Nathan G.
Wyeth, chairman and q member, re-
spectively, of the associations com
mittee on semi-puhlic work.
After rendering their services di-
rectly to Maj. Grant the architects
were taken before the planning com
mittee, which was meeting today, and
were permitted to present their plan.
According to Maj. Brown. chairman
IF teh planning committee. the local
architects want to he of all the aSsis-
lance possible to the Government in
planning local work. and offered to
pool their ideas for the purpose of
getting the best composite plan for any
proposed work. The architects also
requested that the local people be
granted full opportunity when the
Government is in need of architectural
advice.
Want to Beautify City.
The committeeman We're thanked by
Maj. Grant, and the planning commit
lee, who expressed great appreciation
of the desire of the local association
TO help in the plans for the heauti-
ncation of the Capital City.
The city and park planning com
mttee had under consideration today
a number of changes in the present
highway plan of the District of Column
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slime Final action was ordered on
some of them. and the changes decided
upon will be recommended to the Dis
irict commissioners, who, if they
adopt them. will hold public hearings
10 determine the desire of the abutting
property owners on the changes.
One of these is in the vicinity of
Reservoir and Foxall road northwest
This provides that Foxall road shall
continue north of Reservoir road, fol
lowing the present line of Ridge road.
rs now laid down on the highway plan
This part OF Ridge road would be
eliminated and q straight road cut
through to take out some of the curves.
However, the planning committee was
If the opinion that the present curving
roadway should be preserved and that
It should be Widened from 33 to 80
feet
Connecting Road Sought.
Another change in this vicinity pro-
VIdes for a short connecting road be-
tween Potomac avenue and Conduit
road, so as to carry the roadway
under the Cabin John car line of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co
This proposed change would have the
effect of eliminating a dangerous rail
road crossing at grade, as the Conduit
roA1W3N now comes IN a long hill
from Canal road, and the railroad
tracks are crossed on the hill
The committee also decided to rec
ommend to the Commissioners
slight change in the location of Forty
fourth street north of Reservoir road,
in order to make a proper border
roadway for the Archbold parkway.
Some time was given by the com
nittee to the question of a standardized
ton of engineering data used as a
basis for planning city highways and
other city engineering features. The
information now is worked from three
different plans, one by the United
States Engineers. afother used by the
District OF Columbia government and
another worked out by the United
states Coast and Geodetic Survey. 1t
was pointed out that with the city
and park planning committee working
on CITY planning matters some stand
ardization should be decided upon so
that the park committee plans and
the District plans could be worked
out from common data. The differ
ence In the data, it was pointed out,
may cause confusion when engineer.
ing projects Of the city are being car
lied into effect.
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