Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-19
NEW j. S. BUILDINGS.
TO BEAUT|FY CITY
War and Navy Department
Structures CIassed as "0ut-
standing Developments"

One Of the outstanding developments
In washington Is proposed in the
projected new War and Navy Depart
ment Buildings, plans for which were
made available today by Assistant Sec
Rotary Ernest Lee Jahncke. War and
Navy Department officials have been at
work on plans for these new structures,
to be placed In the vicinity Of the In
terror Department Building, with adj
equate land surrounding them, unlike
the development Of the public buildings
program in the triangle.
Under the plans as drawn there is an
alternative proposal, under which the
War or Navy Department Building can
be fitted into alternative locations. The
new Naval Hospital and the laboratory
Of the Public Health Service are de-
signed to at into the program of de-
velopment In this section of the city In
the shadow Of the Lincoln Memorial.
OAicials Change Their Views.
While 1t ID said In service circles that
during the regime of the late Secretary
Good the Army favored placing Of the
new War Department In the region OF
the Capitol, that service now Is repre-
sented as feeling that the new War De-
partment should be placed near the new
Navy Department in the vicinity OF the
Interior Department.
The Government now owns most OF
the land on the proposed sites OF the
new War and Navy Department build
ings, at New York avenue, which now
cuts into the Naval Hospital grounds.
would under the tentative program out
lined to the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission be converged to
the southwark to enter the Lincoln
Memorial Plaza.
With o view to bringing this pro-
gram to reality ct an early date, the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the Fine Arts Commits
sion are cooperating In seeking to
bring about O solution Of the problem
Of the housing adequacy Of the new
War and Navy Department Buildings.
On behalf Of the park commission Fred
eric A. Delano, its chairman, and Lieut..
Col. u. s. Grant, Sd, its vice chair
man and executive ofdcer, will be aided
by william A. Delano Of New York and
Frederick Law Olmsted Of Brookline,
Mass, commission member.
Arts Commission Aides Named.
On behalf Of the Fine Arts Commits
sion, Charles Moore, It's chairman, has
appointed Benjamin w. Morris and
John w. Cross, architects, and Fer
ruccio vitale, Landscape architect, all
Of New York. who are members Of that
commission.
serving on the Navy Department
board, appointed by Secretary Adams,
are Assistant Secretary Jahncke, as
chairman of the board ito consider the
locality and type Of a new Navy Build
ing in Washington: Read Admiral A. L.
Parsons, Civil Engineer Corps, United
States Navy, chief of the Bureau Of
Yards and Docks; Brig. Gen. Hugh
Matthews, QuartermaSter general OF the
Marine Corps; Capt w. r. Furlong,
ONCE Of naval operations; +. 8. Curtis,
chief clerk of the Navy Department,
and H. D. Rouger, principal engineer
Of the Bureau Of Yards and Docks, who
is q member and recorder Of the board.
War Department Representatives.
Studying the problem on behalf OF
the War Department are Maj. Gen.
Charles H. Bridges, adjutant general;
Mai. Gen. John Dewitt. the quarter
master general, and Maj. Gen. e.
Ewing Booth, assistant chief Of stan
for supply.
Assistant Secretary Jahncke. Gen.
Bridges and Gen. Booth conferred Fri
day before the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission and outlined
their programs. An explanation OF de-
tails was given to the commission by
w. T. Partridge, the commissions con-
sulting architect, who was retained by
the Navy Department to advise it, with
reference to the location Of the new
building. ~.
Changes Made Necessary.
The Navy Department Building,
which now occupies part of the Mall,
under wartime programs, will have to
vacate the park space under plans for
the Identification of B street as an ap-
proach to Arlington Memorial Bridge.
The War Department, which Is housed
in several structures over the city, due
to the expanding activities of the State
Department, which caused the Army
unit to find quarters elsewhere, Is badly
In need Of new home.
The Pan-American Union proposes
to put up q 100000 office building,
westerly Of the present structure and
west of the National Academy of Sci
try intend to erect a pretentious struc-
ture, containing a great library and
laboratory, in keeping with the Lincoln
Memorial and surrounding structures.
The. National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission now has under advise
ment o program for Strengthening Viz
ginia avenue, so as to give direct view
onto the Washington Monument. Viz
ginia avenue, which Is the only street
in the city which permits Of full view
onto the Washington Monument, can be
easily Strengthened, In the opinion of
the officials, as the Government owns
most Of the land in the affected area.
The Strengthening process would be
easteriy Of New York avenue.