Annual Report of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National CapitalU.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 |
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acres Anacostia Park appropriated approved approximately Arlington Memorial Bridge Avenue NW boilers Buildings and Public completed concrete construction contract contractor cost courts Creek and Potomac cubic yards Director of Public disbursing officer District of Columbia East electric elevator equipment Executive and disbursing Executive Mansion field house fire floor fountains granite Grounds south Hains Point heating installed Interior July June 30 Lincoln Memorial linear feet located maintenance Mall group Meridian Hill Park Montrose Park Monument Grounds Munitions Building National Capital Navy Building Office of Public operation painted park police parks and reservations pedestal Pennsylvania Avenue plant Potomac Parkway Public Buildings public grounds Public Parks Public resolution repairs replaced Road roadway Rock Creek Park rooms Seaton Park Sherman Circle square feet square yards statue Streets NW Sylvan Theater Temporary Building Tidal Basin tion Total tourist camp trees trucks Various reservations wall Washington Monument West Potomac Park White House
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Page 6 - That the park system of the District of Columbia is hereby placed under the exclusive charge and control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the President of the United States, through the Secretary of War.
Page 30 - Arts, and shall be prosecuted to completion under the direction of said commission and the supervision of the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, under a contract or contracts...
Page 78 - That for the purpose of preventing the pollution and obstruction of Rock Creek and of connecting Potomac Park with the Zoological Park and Rock Creek Park...
Page 43 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be expended under the direction of a commission to be composed of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the Senate, the chairman of the Committee on the Library of the House of Representatives of the Fiftyseventh Congress, and the president of the Pulaski monument Polish central committee.
Page 6 - Army shall perform all the duties now required by law of said commissioner, and shall also have the superintendence of the Washington Aqueduct and all the public works and improvements of the Government of the United States in the District of Columbia, unless otherwise provided by law.
Page 7 - Administration, the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, the District of Columbia, the Architect of the Capitol, and the Panama Canal. (e) The term "construction...
Page 46 - District of Columbia, other than those of the Capitol, the Library of Congress, and the White House, of a...
Page 23 - Columbia under the jurisdiction of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital...
Page 24 - ... of Yards and Docks. Forest Service. — A study of stream flow in the Angeles National Forest, in southern California, was continued in cooperation with the Forest Service.