Identifier: randmcnallycospi1903rand (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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MUSEUM, NAVY YARD.
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V. FEOM THE CAPITOL TO THE WHITE HOUSE. A Walk Up Pennsylvania Avenue. Pennsylvania Avenue is the backbone of Washiington — the head of it resting uponthe storied heights of Georgetown, and the tail lost in the wilderness of shanties east ofthe Navy Yard. It is four miles and a half long, but is broken by theCapitol grounds and by the Treasury and White House grounds. PennsylvaniaBetween these two breaks it extends as a straight boulevard, one and a AvcnUC. half miles in length and 160 feet wide, paved with asphalt and expandingat short intervals into spaces or parks caused by the angular intersection of otherstreets. It will, by-and-by, be among the grandest streets in the United States. A walk up The Avenue begins at the western gates of the Capitol, where FirstStreet, N. W., curves across its rounded front. Pennsylvania Avenue strikes north-west ; a few paces to the left, Maryland Avenue diverges southwest, straight down pastthe National Museum to Long Bridge. The circles at the

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