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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s pictorial guide to Washington and environs ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Rand McNally and Company
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Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the corridor near the entrance and on the next floorabove, form an exhibit of great interest, graphically displaying the difference betweenthe early wooden frigates and line-of-battle ships and the modern steelI^OdelS. cruisers and turreted men-of-war. These models ought not to be over- looked ; the library, also, is well worth attention, on account of the por-traits of departed Secretaries, as well as for the sake of its professional books. The financial department and the actual treasury of the Government are housed in theimposing but somewhat gloomy building which closes the vista up Pennsylvania Avenuefrom the Capitol, and which nearly adjoins the White House park on theTreasury east. This structure, which, suitably to the alleged American worship Building^. of money, has been given the form of a pagan temple, is of the Ionic- Greek order of architecture modified to suit local requirements. Themain building, with its long pillared front on Fifteenth Street, was erected of Virginia
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104 PICTORIAL GUIDE TO WASHINGTOT^. sandstone, after plans by Robert Mills, and completed in 1841. Some years later exten-sions were undertaken under the architectural direction of Thomas U. Walter, whichenlarged the building greatly, produced the magnificent granite porticos at each end,and resulted in the beautifully designed western fa9ade. The whole building, completedin 1869, is 466 feet long and 264 wide exclusive of the porticos, incloses two courts, andhas cost about $10,000,000. The Treasury is a place every stranger visits. The building is open from 9 till2 ; and between 11 and 12 and 1 and 2 oclock, persons who assemble at the office ofthe Treasurer are formed into parties, and conducted to the doors of certain rooms, wherethe guides volubly explain the work in progress there. Thus you may see the girls counting and recounting the sheets of specially made paperupon which all the United States bonds, notes, and revenue stamps are printed ; this isthe beginning of the long ro

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