Smyrna times., 1938-09-29
SEE CHANGES
AT WASHINGTON
Each Year Brings Something
New to Eager Sight
SeerS
INTEREST ART CENTERS

dreds Of thousands Of visitors to
the nations ever-growing capital.
The Capitol dome is still the same
as in the newsreel backdrop for
senatorial snapshots. The Washing
ton monument at night is still
looming landmark in peaked white
hood with red airplane beacons for
eyes. The cherry trees still
wreathe the Tidal basin, pink in
spring, green in summer.
but behind the scenes, and in
doors" says the National Geograph-
ic society, "are many changes
which prevent repeater visitors
from feeling that they have seen
everything.
1.-The triangular block east of the
Archives building where, for many
months, motorists stared at blank
wooden walls while waiting for traf-
fc signals at Constitution and Penn
sylvania avenues, was recently un-
yelled to reveal the Apex building.
This new home for the Federal
Trade commission is named for its
position at the apex of the Federal
Trade group which houses ten i'm
portant bureaus and commissions.
The new seven-foor Apex struc-
ture has fatiron' floor plan, with
rounded column-lined tip pointed
east toward the Capitol.
Interests Art Students.
GAS soon as the Apex building
shed its screen of gray boarding,
up went a larger wooden barrier
across the street, and steam SHOW
els began to bite out the founda-
ton for a National Art gallery to
house the Mellon collection. Art
students may amuse themselves
meanwhile by visiting the recently
opened Museum Of Modern Art,
fifth art museum of Washington.
The new gallery, in the Metropoli-
tan club building at Seventeenth and
H streets, presents changing exhibit
tions.
"a recent addition to the dignified
facades of Constitution avenue is
the Federal Reserve Board building
at Twentieth street. A pair Of
splashing fountains in black granite
bowls flank the entrance to the spa
cious low building of polished Geor-
gia marble Over the front door
broods a marble eagle four yards
tall.
'Other new buildings on the Dis
trict landscape are the additions to
the National Geological park.
Strictly businesslike is the ap-
pearance of the History remodeled
quarters of the Home Owners Loan
corporation, at First street and In
diana avenue, with tidy limestone
front covering almost 200, 900 square
feet of office space. Nearby rises
the District Court building with its
eight streamlined courtroomS, stu
ated just south of Judiciary Square.
Several new structures in Wash
ington will take their places in the
official directory under the obscure
title of annexes. The Government
Printing office has an annex for
additional warehouse space. The
Agriculture annex is a long six
story rectangle of tapestry brick at
Twelfth and C streets S. w. Here
cotton, wool. hay, seeds, beans and
other agricultural products are test
ed and classified for sale.
More Library Space.
THE Bureau of Engraving's new
seven-story annex is one of the
largest structures in the world built
of steel and concrete.
THE capitals fourth new annex
of the year is the addition to the
Library of Congress, east of the
parent building and glaringly white
beside its age-grimed elder. This
annex provides storage space for
ten million books, with penthouse
for l67 quite private study rooms.
Recent exhibits of commemora-
tive stamps, in the Benjamin Frank
lin post office, have brought the
philatelic display room up to date
with $4,000 United States stamps on
sheets of all stamps issued in this
country since 1887. In addition the
display room shows about 10000
foreign stamps from all 88 coun-
tries which belong to the Interna-
tional Postal union.
Recently completed portions of
the National Cathedral on Mount
St. Alban have been opened to the
public.
Housing projects, to relieve the
congestion which made Washington
rents the highest of SO leading Unit
ed States cities. have added several
villages to residential parts of the
city, most visited of which is Green
belt, a suburban development in
Maryland.
Changes in Massachusetts ave-
nue's Embassy Row include the
opening of the South African
Unions legation and the closing of
legations of Austria and Iran"
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