Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-04

Private developers are contrib
uting to the future physical char
acter of the Capital as they pro-
coed with improvements on nom
governmental sites; and co-opera-
ton in the design of these Struc-
lures, sometimes volunteered by
owners and in some other cases
required by law, is acting to as
sure private buildings in harmony
with Government plans.
Begins Around Capitol.
A trip about Washington today re-
veals much of the change that is COM
ing to pass here.
Activity in the vicinity of Capitol
Hill, which represents the easternmost
end of the Governments principal pub
lie buildings program, is conferred about
the $7,500.000 House Office Building
project. Excavation work on this JOB
is practically complete and the task OF
laying the foundations for this struc-
ture is in the offing. Work on this
project will probably be of at least two
years duration, contractors estimate.
To the east of the Capitol, the work
of razing the buildings in the block
bounded by East Capitol street, Mary
land avenue. First and Second streets,
to make way for the $9,74O, 900 Supreme
Court home, is almost finished. Inc
Old Brick Capitol was the last on this
site to meet the attack of the pick and
ak of the wrecking crew.
Soon the creak of rending t1mbers
and the rattle of bricks tobogganning
Into trucks will emanate from a. square
and a half of land east of the Library
of Congress, where group Of buildings
of a generation and more ago stand In
the way of the proposed annex to the
Library. The property was purchased
appropriation.
Marble Structure Rises.
With the sumptuous marble structure
that is to house the collection OF
Shakespeareana of Henry G. Folger
now nearing completion, the James
Baird Co. shortly viii remove its SCAT
folding and building paraphernalia
from around this $1,500,000 monu-
occupies the land adjacent to the
Library annex site, on the south side
of East Capitol street, between Second
and Third streets, constitutes mag
nificent new landmark in the National
Capital. The Shakespearean Library
Is private enterprise.
Another Government project is the
development OF the Union StaLlon
Plaza. which includes the razing OF
the Government hotels opposite the
station to make way for a park ap-
proach to the Capitol. The clearing
Of this area probably will require at
least another month or six weeks
Congress has authorized expenditure OF
S6,244,472 for the enlargement Of the
Capitol grounds. of which project the
Union Station Plaza will be part.
The first unit of the Federal triangle
project-the new Internal Revenue
Building-was completed this Summer
at a cost of approximately $4,000. 900.
This structure of marble and stone
overlooks the Mall, the southern boun-
dairy of the Pennsylvania avenue tri-
angle development, between Tenth and
Twelfth streets.
Great Commerce Building.
On Fourteenth street below Pennsyl-
vania avenue the new home of the De-
partment of Commerce, which viii be
the largest building to be constructed
in the triangle, is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. Authorized by Congress at a
cost of S17,50o.00 the Commerce
Building will extend 1000 feet along
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, from
the Mall to < street.
The Department of Agriculture re-
Gently occupied its new 100000
marble administration building. The
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