. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . supplied with water bypipes as early as 1832. The supply is still from this source. Rawlins Square, on New York avenue, southwest of thePresidents House, between 18th and 19th sts. n. w. Mount Vernon Place, at the intersection of K and 8 th sts. Mass. and N. Y. avenues. A beautiful fountain occupies thecentre. Until 1871 the Northern Market occupied this locality. Fourteenth-street Circle, at the intersection of Massachu-setts and Vermont avenues and 14th and M sts. n. w., is beauti-fully laid out, and the centre is now occupi
. Roose's companion and guide to Washington and vicinity . supplied with water bypipes as early as 1832. The supply is still from this source. Rawlins Square, on New York avenue, southwest of thePresidents House, between 18th and 19th sts. n. w. Mount Vernon Place, at the intersection of K and 8 th sts. Mass. and N. Y. avenues. A beautiful fountain occupies thecentre. Until 1871 the Northern Market occupied this locality. Fourteenth-street Circle, at the intersection of Massachu-setts and Vermont avenues and 14th and M sts. n. w., is beauti-fully laid out, and the centre is now occupied by an equestrianstatue of Major-General Geo. H. Thomas, contributed by theSociety of the Army of the Cumberland. Government appropri-ated $25,000 for the pedestal on which the statue stands. Theartist was Mr. J. Q. A. Ward; cast by Bureau Brothers & Heaton,Phila.; sum paid by Army of the Cumberland, $40,000. Iowa Circle, formerly called the Thirteenth-street Circle, isat the intersection of Vermont and Rhode Island avenues andP and 13th sts. n. 73 The Washington GiBOiiE is at the intersection of Pennsylva-nia and New Hampshire avenues and K and 23d sts. n. w., neaiGeorgetown. Here is the equestrian bronze statue of , by Clark Mills; cost $50,000. Cast out of capturedguns donated by Congress. Dupont Circle is at the intersection of Connecticut, Massa-chusetts, and New Hampshire avenues, at 19th and P sts. n. w. Near this is the house of the British Minister. Lying East of the Capitol. Stanton Place is at the intersection of Md. and Mass. avenuesat 5th st. n. e.; area, 3 acres 1 rood. An equestrian statue Nathaniel Greene, by Henry K. Brown, stands withinthis space. The artist received $50,000. The Continental Con-gress voted a monument to Gen. Greene; and this statue, afterthe lapse of almost a century, is the virtual fulfilment of that res-olution. It was put in position in 1877. Major-General Greene was a highly distinguished revolutionarysoldi
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