Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-25
CIVIC GROUPS PUSH
STADIUM FOR 1882.
Allied Architects and Trade
Board Would Prepare
for BiCentenniaI.

Further conferences will be held by
Architects of Washington, Inc, with
the Fine Arts Commission and the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning Com
mission, in an effort to push the pro-
gram of great stadium on the banks
of the Anacostia River, at East Capitol
street, without delay. Sponsors of the
improvement of East Capitol street are
anxious to have the central portion of
the stadium ready for the 1882 George
Washington Bicentennial celebrations.
Plans have been developed and de-
tailed estimates of cost for construc-
tiol- Of the stadium and an accom-
panying building with 1andScaping work
and the division and extension of East
Capitol street, show that the total cost
of the entire project Is placed at S.
100000. About 100000 is suggested
as the cost of the stadium building;
some 100000 would build the con-
crete section and the wings, and about
$1,000,000 for the extension Of East
Capitol street, development Of the pro-
posed plaza and landScaping plans.
S1,OOO,OOO Would Suffice Now.
Construction of the stadium proper,
placed at 81 100000, with seats, wings,
terraces and field, could go forward at
once, If Congress gives the word, in the
opinion of boosters of this project. The
rest of the development. they say, could
follow in leisurely fashion, as funds be-
come available.
tentative plans for the project,
placed before the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission, show
that provision would be made for a
subway terminal, under the proposed
plaza, with the construction of ade-
quate parking areas, fanking the sta
dunn, the street car lines being de-
pressed as they approach the stadium
area.
Civic leaders, interested in this pro-
gram, say the project did not originate
with the Board of Trade or the Allied
Architects, but has been developed by
these groups.
Horace w. Peaslee, vice president of
the American Institute of Architects,
said today that there is yet ample time
to get the AnacoStia Park Stadium fin
ished in time for the 1882 celebrations
If Congress will give the subject early
consideration and allow a fair amount
of time for the preparation OF detailed
plans.
AS Mr.. Peaslee and his associates see
it, East Capitol street would lead into
T. plaza, TuIlIllIlb IlOLL1l dLlO oOuGll, QC-
signed to be twice the size of the Place
de la Concorde in Paris. One travelling
east on East Capitol street would see
the facade of a great building, three
blocks long, built under the stadium
seats, appearing as the back of the
amphitheater.
Water Pageantry in Mind.
The arms of the horseshoe, forming
the stadium, would be toward the
river, well beyond the Eastern High
School. There would be q 30-acre field,
with a 50-acre basin beyond for water
pageantry, and the seating arrange
ment overlooking either land or water
events.
East Capitol street would split at the
stadium, traverSing the AnacoStia River
to an island being constructed by the
United States Engineer ONCE as part Of
the park system. The seating capacity
of the stadium Is estimated at zoe, 1000
persons.
On the west side of the stadium, as
the support for the seats, would be a
great building, some $50 feet long and
125 feet wide, with galleries, having a
combined capacity of $4,000.
Board of Trade Active.
The Washington Board of Trade has
been actively at work on this proposal.
Claude w. Owen, chairman of the Com
mittee Of the National Coliseum Of the