Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . ntirely to this specialty. Over30 miles of pavement have been laid byhim in this city, all giving street, one of the most beautiful of allour streets, was one of his first contracts,and from the moment of its being finisheduntil to-day it has never cost the city onecent for repair. Other specimens of hiswork can be seen in front of the asylum,and the principal work in the park andin many other p
Historical and commercial sketches of Washington and environs: our capital city, "the Paris of America"; its prominent places and people .. Its improvements, progress and enterprise .. . ntirely to this specialty. Over30 miles of pavement have been laid byhim in this city, all giving street, one of the most beautiful of allour streets, was one of his first contracts,and from the moment of its being finisheduntil to-day it has never cost the city onecent for repair. Other specimens of hiswork can be seen in front of the asylum,and the principal work in the park andin many other places. Mr. Cranford isalso pushing and making a specialty of anew pavement for sidewalks, called thegranolithic pavement. He has intro-duced them with great success, and as areference to the beauty and durability of the granolithic system we note the northside of Pennsylvania avenue from 15thstreet to the Capitol, the south side of theExecutive Mansion, in front of the De-partment of Justice, and Riggs Bank,and many other private places through-out the city. Mr. Cranford is a gentle-man of broad ideas, and has been promi-nently identified with the business inter-ests of the THE WASHINGTON ART CO. Keyser & Paull, Proprietors, 934 P St. Northwest. Whether con-sidered as an in-dustrial art or asa branch of com-mercial pursuit,this house calls forprominent men-tion. The Wash-ington Art Com-pany are mention-ed as standardrepresentatives in this line. They aregeneral agents, for the United States, forthe world-renowned Lancaster elegant art galleries for the displayand sale of oil and water-color paintingsand other works of art are located inhandsome and commodious buildings, asstated above. They are wholesale andretail dealers in picture frames and mould-ings, and manufacturers of gold, bronze,and antique frames, plush and velvetcabinets, steel and electric engravings,and artists in scenic and landscape paint-ings, oil, pastel, plain and half-tonedcrayon portrait
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