Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-27
TREASURY SQUARE
TO HAVE FOUNTAIN
Rejecting Pool Also Planned
for New Park Below
Pennsylvania Avenue.

A fountain and rejecting pool will be
The principal features Of Treasury
Square" the new park between Penn
zs'ivania avenue, E, Fourteenth and
Fifteenth streets, where Polls Theater
formerly was located.
This was decided definitely during
the past week when the matter was APP
proved by the Board of Architectural
Consultants of the Treasury Depart
ment, the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission and Secretary Of
the Treasury Mellon.
Plans for the landscaping of the
square are being drawn by Edward H.
Bennett of Chicago, who IS chairman
of the Treasury Board of Architectural
Consultants His ideas were approved
by the Government agencies consider
ing the matter at several meetings last
week, and his firm Of Bennett, Parsons
e. Frost now will proceed to complete
plans for construction Of the fountain
and the pool.
Trees and Shrubs to Be Low.
The fountain, Mr.. Bennett explained,
will be placed in about the center of
the square, and will be comparatively
low in height SO as to harmonic with
the general size of the park, and the
height of the Sherman equestrian
statue in Sherman Square, to the west
of Fifteenth street.
The rejecting pool, it was explained,
will extend eastward from the fountain,
and in line with the Kosciusko Statue,
in the park between Thirteenth street,
e street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Trees and low shrubbery will be used
around the edge of the parkway. and
suficient sidewalks will be installed to
accommodate the throngs which no
doubt will cross the park from the Fed
erel triangle building to the south.
Will Be Treasury Square,"
The little park at the foot of Penn
sylvania avenue at Fifteenth street
never has been officially named, but for
convenience purposes it has been in
formally called Treasury Square, -
after the great structure which stands
at the end Of the Pennsylvania avenue
vista.
The park has just been seeded to
grass.
the State of Pennsylvania to donate a
fountain for this park evidently have
fallen through. and the fountain will be
put up by the Federal Government
Plans for eventual treatment of Penn
eylvania avenue in the vicinity also pro-
vide for leaving two other small adjaceNt
park areas. one in front of the District
Of Columbia Building between Thirteen
and-a-half and Fourteenth street. and
the other in front of the former South
ern Railway Building now owned by
the Government between Thirteenth
and Thirteen-and-a-half street These
three small parks from Thirteenth To
Fifteenth street thus will preserve the
curbline of Pennsylvania avenue Z
street, which recently was cut through
in front of the District Building, fur
nished a new trafiic artery to carry
downtown trafic.
Botanical Garden Ex.avated.
Two other city Identification projects
IN which Mr. Bennett has been asso-
ciated as architect with David Lynn,
architect OF the Capitol, are making
good progreSs-the new Botanical Gar
dens, and the large fountain which is
10 be placed about midway between
Union Station and the Capitol Building,
in the plaza.
Excavations for the Botanical Garden
structures have been completed, and
concrete will be poured within a day
or two If the weather permits. The new
location of the Botanical Gardens is
directly south Of its present site.
Rapid progress is being made on the
general development OF the Union
Station Capitol Plaza, where new street
car tracks are being installed. Within
q short time, IL was predicted last night,
the cars can be run over the new
tracks. Later the old tracks will be
torn up andSthe ground prepared for
location of new fountain. This is to
be one of the large and beautiful foun-
tains of the city, designed to throw q
bowl Of water, at the maximum
capacity of 5000 gallons an hour. Plans
for this fountain are well under way
and small models of the statuary have
been completed, as part of the progress
towards carving them in stone.