Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-13
Government Edifice Protec-
ton Accords With Intent
of Shipstead Act.
FOUR U. S. STRUCTURES
CONCERNED IN ACTION
Senate and House Offices, Library
of Congress and Supreme Court
Home Benefited.

The District Commissioners yesterday
promulgated an order limiting the
height of buildings adjacent to Govern
ment buildings to carry out the intent
of the Shipstead act, signed last month
by President Hoover Eight stretches
of street were named in the order, the
allowable heights on these streets vary
ing from go to 80 feet. In each case
the order provides that ventilation and
elevator shafts on top of buildings in
the areas named shall be set back from
the front and side copings a distance
equal to the height of the shaft.
Four Buildings Protected.
The buildings protected by the order
are the Senate and House Office Build
ings with their respective additions, the
Library of Congress and its addition and
the new Supreme Court Building.
The following Is list Of the restric-
tons:
On the east side Of First street north
east, between B and c streets, adjacent
to the Senate ONCE Building, no build
ing shall be erected or altered so as to
be higher than horizontal line 10 feet
above the top Of the curb at the north
east corner of First and B streets
northeast.
On the north side of Maryland ave-
nue. northeast between First and Sec
ond streets adjacent to the New ST.
preme Court Building, no building shall
be erected or altered so as to be higher
than a horizontal line 60 feet above the
top of the curb at the northeast corner
of the intersection Of First street and
Maryland avenue northeast.
On the east side of Second street
northeast between East Capitol and B
streets, adjacent to the New Supreme
Court Building, no building shall be
erected or altered so as to be higher
than a horizontal line 60 feet above the
top of the curb at the northeast corner
of the intersection of Second and A
streets northeast.
On the east side of Third street
southeast between East Capitol street
and Pennsylvania avenue, adjacent to
| the New Library of Congress, no build
| ing shall be erected or altered so as to
| be higher than horizontal line 10 feet
above the top of the curb at the north
| east corner of Third and A streets
| southeast.
PENNSYLVANIA Avenue Affected.
| On the north side of Pennsylvania
avenue southeast between Second and
| Third streets, adjacent to the New
Library of Congress. no building shall
be erected or altered so as to be higher
than horizontal line 70 feet above the
! top of the curb at the southeast corner
of the intersection of Second street and
| Pennsylvania avenue southeast
On the south side of B street south
east between First and Second streets,
adjacent to the Library of Congress, no
building shall be erected or altered
so as to be higher than horizontal
line 70 feet above the top of the curb
at the southeast corner of First and B
streets southeast.
On the east side of First street
southeast between B and G streets, ad-
| jacent to the House once Building, no
building shall be erected or altered 50
as to be higher than horizontal line
| 10 feet above the top of the curb at
the southeast corner of First and B
streets southeast.
On the south side of G street south
east between First street and South
Capitol street southeast and between
South Capitol street and Delaware av-
enue southeast, adjacent to the House
Office Building and additions thereto,
no building shall be erected or altered
so as to be higher than a horizontal
line 90 feet above the top of the curb
at the southeast corner of South Cap
itol and c streets southeast.