Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . ntains the machinery for the elevators, pumps, heatingand ventilating app iratus, boilers, coal vaults and store rooms. The main eiitiance to the Building is on the N. This wing isthe counterpart of the S. wing, measuring 292 front and It was commenced May 22, 1879, and finished Dec. 23,1882; cost, $1,912,351. The Headquarters of the Army are on the corridor of the firsfloor E. of the main entrance. Here will be found an interestincollection
Keim's illustrated hand-bookWashington and its environs: a descriptive and historical hand-book of the capital of the United States of America . ntains the machinery for the elevators, pumps, heatingand ventilating app iratus, boilers, coal vaults and store rooms. The main eiitiance to the Building is on the N. This wing isthe counterpart of the S. wing, measuring 292 front and It was commenced May 22, 1879, and finished Dec. 23,1882; cost, $1,912,351. The Headquarters of the Army are on the corridor of the firsfloor E. of the main entrance. Here will be found an interestincollection of oo/traits of Commanders in-chief of the Armies, alsof distinguished Generals, sketches of frontier life, and Forbespen and ink sketches of the war. On the second floor, N. corridor, are the apartments of theSecretary of War; here will be found an exceedingly interestingcollection of portraits of Secretaries of War and distinguishedMihtary Officers. (See page 138 ) On the third floor (No. 69) is the War Department Library,comprising 16,000 volumes. The rest of this wing of the build-ing is occupied by the Administrative Bureaus. Ill m\. 138 WAR DEPARTMENT. The Second Floor (Room 93). The office of the Secretary of War and re-ception room adjoining, constitute a beautiful suite of apartments artisticallyfinished in encaustic and oil, and luxuriously furnished. Here is a valuableand interesting collection 0/ portraits 0/ the Secretaries 0/ War from thefoundation of the Government, cost $305 each, and painted authority Congress. Secretary of War, 1789, Henry Knox, of Massachusetts, portrait by Young, after Charles Gilbert Stuart; 1795, Timothy Pickering, of Massachu-setts, by Edwin Bracket, after Stuart; 1796, James McHenry. of Maryland,by Daniel Huntingdon, after Pollock ; 1800, Samuel Dexter, of Massa-chusetts, by Bracket; 1801, Roger Griswold, of Connecticut, no portrait painted;180T, Henry Dearborn, of Massachusetts, by Huntingdon, after Stuart; 1809,William Eustis, of Mass
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