. Book of the Royal blue . 38 Book of the Royal Blue. Copyright, 1907, Published .MonthlyTHE Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroah (All rights reserved.) William Elliott Lowes, Editor. BALTIMORE, APRIL, 1907. No. 7. HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. HY I\ ,1. YOING. HKN LEnfant planned the city of east of that point, although wide and wellWashington, in addition to the paved, it is of little more importance than Washington, in addition to thestreets extending toward the cardi-nal points of the compass, he pro-vided for a series of broad avenues radiat-ing diagonally from the Capitol and
. Book of the Royal blue . 38 Book of the Royal Blue. Copyright, 1907, Published .MonthlyTHE Passenger Department, Baltimore & Ohio Railroah (All rights reserved.) William Elliott Lowes, Editor. BALTIMORE, APRIL, 1907. No. 7. HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. HY I\ ,1. YOING. HKN LEnfant planned the city of east of that point, although wide and wellWashington, in addition to the paved, it is of little more importance than Washington, in addition to thestreets extending toward the cardi-nal points of the compass, he pro-vided for a series of broad avenues radiat-ing diagonally from the Capitol and namedfor the States. importance thanbut this condition paved, it is of other streets does not exist when the foot of the Capitol grounds is reached on the west. From thence the course is diagonally northwest, being broken by the massive Treasury. <AVY BCILDK Extending from the eastern or Anacostiabranch of the Potomac, some two mileseast of the Capitol, to the little city thenknown as Georgetown, was what was de-signed to be the principal one, which wasnamed in honor of the Keystone in a northwesterly direction, thisavenue is broken by the Capitol grounds; Building at 15th Street, but resuming againat the northwest corner of the White Housegrounds. The principal part of this Avenue,so far as the general public is concerned,is the stretch of something over a mile fromthe Peace Monument, as the marble groupat 1st Street is called, to the TreasuryBuilding. Over this level, concreted HISTORIC PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.
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