Extension of Capitol Grounds: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3704, a Bill to Authorize the Acquisition of the Remaining Property in Square 725 and the Property in Square 724 in the District of Columbia for the Purpose of Extension of the Site of the Additional Office Building for the United States Senate Or for the Purpose of Addition to the United States Capitol Grounds, May 21 and 22, 1956United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 60 pages Includes discussion of demolition of the historic Alva Belmont house. |
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Page 54 - Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood, and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Page 8 - Capitol ; except that any street or roadway within such area under the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia...
Page 21 - Commission, is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States, by purchase, condemnation, transfer, or otherwise, such publicly or privately owned real property in the District of Columbia (including all alleys, and parts of alleys, and streets within the curblines surrounding such real property) located in the vicinity of the United States Capitol Grounds...
Page 2 - Grounds; and the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, is authorized to enter into contracts and to make such expenditures, including expenditures for personal and other services, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this appropriation; $1,250,000.
Page 21 - An Act to provide for the acquisition of land in the District of Columbia for the use of the United States', approved March 1, 1929 (16 DC Code, sees.
Page 13 - Research Council is a private, nonprofit organization of scientists, dedicated to the furtherance of science and to its use for the general welfare. The Academy itself was established in 1863 under a Congressional charter signed by President Lincoln. Empowered to provide for all activities appropriate to academies of science, it was also required by its charter to act as an adviser to the Federal Government in scientific matters.
Page 8 - Law 169 which authorized the Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, to prepare preliminary plans and estimates for an additional Senate Office Building.
Page 49 - ... extension of the Capitol grounds on that side. It stood north-east of the Capitol, on the Bladensburg Road, and its close neighborhood to the Houses of Congress brought Mr. Gallatin into intimate social relations with the members. The principal adherents of the Administration in Congress were always on terms of intimacy in Mr. Gallatin's house, and much of the confidential communication between Mr. Jefferson and his party in the Legislature passed through this channel. Nathaniel Macon, the Speaker;...
Page 21 - Any real property owned by the United States and located south of Independence Avenue in the vicinity of the Capitol Grounds shall upon request of the Architect of the Capitol, made with the approval of the House Office Building Commission, be transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Architect of the Capitol without reimbursement or transfer of funds.
Page 2 - Provided further, That upon acquisition of any real property pursuant to this Act, the Architect of the Capitol, when directed by the Senate Office Building Commission to so act, is authorized to provide for the. demolition and/or removal of any...