Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
MAP STUDIES PICTURE BEAUTY
OF CAPITAL Is YEARS HENCE
Many Projects Are Tentative, but Others
Are Rapidly Taking Shape
Here.

Of the City OF washington that devel-
opment should be fostered to the east,
as well as to the west.
| While the idea of having building
for each State has heretofore been adj
! vocated. the fact that such group
would be placed along East Capitol
street Is definite advancement toward
reality. Materials advertising the
States, with samples of their COM
merce and farm resources and other
natural advantages. would be displayed
4 under the proposal, In the State build
ings. East Capitol street would be re-
named the Avenue OF the States
/ The suggestion Is put forward by Mr..
Eliot that the statues now grouped In
Statuary Hall In the Capitol might be
utilized, II so desired by the respective
States. either In front of their build
ings or in their halls. Under the plan
there are all sizes of buildings to care
for the States varying In area and pop
ulation.
Buildings for Colonies.
| Around Lincoln Square, there are Is
| sites and 1t Is suggested by Mr.. Eliot
that buildings Of the Is original colonies
might well be placed there. Such new
| square would be renamed Colonial
Square. In the center of this square
would be placed memorial to the
colonial period, as no project approxi-
mating this now exists IN the National
Capital. Along this proposed avenue Of
the States. there are Sc sites, sufiicient
to care for the existing IS States of the
| Union and couple of nlore that might
be added to the sovereign family.
At the end of East Capitol street at
| AnacoStia Park Is q location for a
great stadium, such Is the Roosevelt
Stadium that Is being talked about for
Washington. A monumental entrance
to the city Is projected at that point,
clso. as shown by tine map. The sta
dunn, as depicted, Is shown as one
| sided. designed to seat from $4,000 to
100000 people that at no far distant
date may be viewing Olympic game
tryouts. air circuses, an Army and Navy
game or other great gatherings Of pub
1 lie import.
| Eastward, across the Anacostia
River, are proposed industrial exhibit
ton and circus grounds and further
up the hill, the suggested Fort Drive.
with Fort Chaplin looking directly
down this vista to the Capitol, taking
| in the whole of the axis line.
The building design east Of the Cap
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be supervised by some body such as
the Commission Of Fine Arts, In Mr..
Eliot's opinion, to insure uniformity and
to avoid any suggestion OF a conglome-
ration Of world fair structures.
Plans IS Years Ahead.
The development of Gallinger Hos
pital and Fort Dupont Park are shown
on the map. The improvement Of the
area at Fifteenth and II streets and
Maryland avenue as plaza Is shown
| In the tentative plan and the develop
ment of Commodore Barney Circle, at
the junction of Kentucky and Pennsyl-
vania avenues and Seventeenth street
| southeast, are set out. An enlarged
Rosedale playground. too, occupies a
prominent place on the map.
Such development as here set forth
| is apprehended as possibility by Mr..
| Eliot In rs years or so. Much addi-
tional legislation by Congress viii be
necessary to bring this about and when
it is remembered that LEnfant sug-
gested triangle for public buildings
of the Federal Government set spart
is Just now dawning into actually,
there remains yet much to be done to
bring to life the dreams of the men
who stood beside the Potomac q CEN
fury back and glimpsed a beautiful
city Of q far-hung Nation that would
be the peerless city Of them all.