The Washington times., 1929-02-28
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STORE ARE
MANY

Inaugural visitors to Wash.
ington are seeing the city in
what is distinctly a transition
stage. Before another in-
auguration rolls around, 1t may
be confidently predicted, the
city itself will be fully as inn
portant an attraction as the
Ouadrennial fete for the hosts
that come here for the festivi-
ties.
The city, in fact. will emerge as
o world capital in the fullest se1ae
of the word in 1882. Architectnr'
ANY, ii will be almost revolutienizod.
sISs.ooO. .0aO Triangle
The chief feature Or the recon:
struetion of washington, Of course,
is the s175 900 900 Triangle that is
slowly taking shape south Of Penn
sylvania Avenue. It IL TO be the
greatest ensemble OF public build.
inrs to be found anywhere in the
world. In sheer size 1t will surpass
the group of museums known as
the Louvre in Paris: in number Of
Government workers employed IN
a single group of gtructures. and
representing almost so per cent OF
! the Federal personnel in the Capital,
! 1t will have no rival anywhere.
| inaugural visitors today viii OBJ
serve only two huge excavations IN
| the ground, where foundations Tor
| the Commerce and Internal Revenue
| buildings are being laid, an visible
| evidence that the Triangle In on its
way to reality. But another four
years will tell a vastly different
story, although there is no reason
| for believing that it will be more
than so per cent completed in that
| time.
In another four years, also. the
/ new civic center for Washington,
to face Pennsylvania Avenue be.
tween Four and one-naH and Sixth
y Streets Northwest, will be well on
i the road to completion. Congress
has just passed the legislation pro.
II viding for the condemnation Of the
necessary land.
!. Union Station Plaza.
The Capitol. Union Station Plaza.
providing what will probably be
the finest city, entrance to be
found anywhere. soon will be under
way. Plans call for a terraced
park between the station and the
Capitol, with boulevard forming
connecting link between the Paza
and Pennsylvania, Avenue, reaching
the latter at Third Street North.
west.
During President Hoover's term
the Arlington Memorial Bridge will
be completed, and also the Mount
Vernon Memorial. Boulevard. In.
tended as a part of the observance
OF the washington bicentenary in
1892. The bridge will be the finest
spen of its kind on the American
continent. The Mount Vernon Botl-
leVard has been characterized BY
the Fine Arts Commission as the
prospective Appian Way Of the
United States. Ultimately it will
be flanked by great memorials
symbolizine American progress and
American Va1or.
1t is the plan OF Mr.. Hoover
J TO take steps to remodel that archi.
; tectnral monstrosity. the State,
War. and Navy building.
To Cost $2,OOO,OO0
At a cost of S2.000,000, the gin.
ger.bread details of the exterioA In
cluding the superimposed colon
nades. will be eliminated, and q
classic colonnade similar to that
: on the east and west facades Of
the Treasury building, will be sub.
stituted. This work OF reconstruc.
ton is one of the improvements
to the layout of Federal buildings
here which is uppermost in Mr..
Hoover's mind.
The Executive offices of the
White House also are to be re-
modelled and enlarged. Mr.. Hoover
viii have three secretaries. each
with his own suite OF offices. the
Executive offices are to be ex-
tended eastward. taking up part OF
the space now occupied by the
terranced one-story corridor run
ming between them and the White
House proper.
Engineering Museum
The White House was enlarged
by the addition of two wings by
President Roosevelt in 1909, Prest-
dent Taft decided. seven years
later. to increase the available space
in the Executive offices. There
has been no further remodeling
since that time.
Another prospective addition to
the edifices of Washington during
the Hoover regime Is expected to be
an engineering and industrial
museum. showing in graphic detail
American econo. ,iC progress. The
tentative site chosen for this struc.
: ture is Seventhsand 3 Streets South.
west. and facing 1t across the Mail
will be the new Department Of Jus.
tice structure.
The new building. Of the United
States Supreme Court, on the Capi.
toi Plaza, will be erected within tie
next four years. as also will the
House of Representatives Office
Building Annex. west of the present
structure.
Strides Of Progress
Many other improvements are
slated for the CAPITAL in the near