Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-20
TRIANGLE STREETS
TO Be 70 Fl. WIDE
Fourteenth viii Be Basis for
Broad Traffic Arteries
From B to Avenue.

Streets running north and south
through the Federal building triangle
between Pennsylvania avenue and the
Mall will be brought up to width of
10 feet, it was learned today at the
Treasury Department.
This will mean the widening of virtu-
ally every street in the triangle develop
ment program, with the possible eXcep-
ton of broad Fourteenth street, which,
with it's two lines of street cars and
wide traffic lanes, is expected to set the
standard in width for others.
Even Fifteenth street. it is under
stood will probably be widened some
what by bringing the east curb back to
a line with the east curb alongside the
Washington Hotel opposite the Treas
ury Department, thus widening by few
feet this important traffic artery which
lies at the extreme western end of the
triangle development.
Thirteenth Street Studied.
The question of Thirteenth street still
IS being studied by the Treasury De-
partment experts to see what kind OF
Vehicular entrance. if any, Is TO be
made into the grand plaza. Under
present plans for the triangle develop
ment buildings will continue across
what is now Thirteenth street, but
study is being made TO see what KIND
perhaps through archways as in some
famous European structures. The
Louvre at Paris, for instance, has sew
eral of these archways for traffic, with
buildings overhead.
Twelfth street is an important
street through the triangle and will run
into a great circle more than 300 feet
in diameter. Part OF this circle ALREADY
may be seen taking shape in the north
west corner of the new Internal Reve-
nue. Building.
The next part of this circle to become
visible will be in the new Post Office
Department. which is to be constructed
along the west side of Twelfth street
from Pennsylvania avenue southwark
to point about where Ohio avenue now
intersects. The west curb of Twelfth
street will be set far back into the prop
erty which now stands along that curb,
including No. police precinct station.
And the great circle will swing its way
through the center of the area. There
will be a monument in the ccnte" of
the circle Twelfth street now is only
a little over 40 feet vice, but will be
widened to 10.
Eleventh Street to Disappear.
What is left of Eleventh street through
the Triangle will be eliminated by the
new structure, which is to be built from
Tenth to Twelfth to hook onto the north
end of the new thermal Revenue Build
ing and complete that architectural fea-
ture. This structure from Tenth to
Twelfth along the Avenue, however, can
not be constructed until the new Post
Office Department is built, the depart
mental personnel and files are moved
out of the old oepartm emit, and the con-
spicuous old Post Office Buile ing with
its tail tower. torn down.
Tenth, Ninth and Seventh streets are
the other north and south through
streets which are to be given the 70-feet
width
One Of the principal traffic improve
msnts in connection with the Federal
triangle development will be the Wild
enirg of B street. now paved with cob
blest- ne, into p wids, smooth avenue,
with new entrance fir; m Pennsylvania
a+enIe 1t is to be Strengthened and
new widths probably taken from the
Mall side.
b Street to River.
B street, which is to be the great cere-
mon.al avenue of the future, with ease
OF access from Union Station by way of
the new avenue to be cut from Union
Station to Pennsylvania avenue. is to be
one of the most magnificent streets of
the National Capital. Flanked on one
side by the Mall with its bread stretches
of parkway, and on the other by a row
Of monumental and magnificent build
lngs in the Federal triangle, it will run
westward toward the Potomac, passing
the Ellipse, the Pan-American Build
ing and the row of monumental struc-
lures, including several new ones, which
will stretch from Seventeenth street
almost to the river. On the Mall side,
the temporary Navy and Munitions
Buildings will give way to parkway,
with beautiful views of the Lincoln Me-
mortal Pool. Lincoln Memorial and
park.
Among the new structures to be built
along the north side of street west of
Seventeenth will be the new Public
Health Service Building and the Phar-
maceutical Building The Naval Hos
pital in the distant future also is plan
ming TO put up some new buildings
which will be visible from street