. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . , and formany years directed the institution most successfully, retaining theposition until his death. In 1880 Congress appropriated $15,000 for .the erection of a bronze statue of Professor Henry, and on April 19,. THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING-OFFICE. 234 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. 1883, this statue, the work of WilHam W. Story, was publicly un-veiled with appropriate ceremony. It stan
. Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . , and formany years directed the institution most successfully, retaining theposition until his death. In 1880 Congress appropriated $15,000 for .the erection of a bronze statue of Professor Henry, and on April 19,. THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING-OFFICE. 234 PICTURESQUE WASHINGTON. 1883, this statue, the work of WilHam W. Story, was publicly un-veiled with appropriate ceremony. It stands northwest of the Smith-sonian Building, in a prominent position on the grounds. The building is located on that part of the Mall, between Seventhand Twelfth streets, known as the Smithsonian (xrounds, an areaof fifty-two acres, finely laid out as a public park, with broad drivesand footways, handsome lawns, and groves of luxuriant trees. An-drew J. Downing, the distinguished landscape gardener and horticul-turist, designed and partially laid out the grounds, but he died in1852, before the work was completed. A monumental vase of greatbeauty, w^hich stands in the easterly portion of the grounds, waserected to his memory by the American Pomological Society. Thebuilding is of red sandstone from qiuarries near Washington, on theupper Potomac, and the style of architecture is that variously de-scribed as the Norman, the Lomb
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