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Tag: Benjamin Latrobe

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Monument ("Washington Monument"), Washington, D.C. Rendered perspective

Washington Monument Almost Built As Pyramid

March 17, 2015

Plan of the west end of the public appropriation in the city of Washington, called the Mall : as proposed to be arranged for the site of the university / to the Committee of the H. of R. of Congress, BHLatrobe, Surveyor of the City of Washington, Jan'y 1816.

Never Built: Proposed University on the National Mall in 1816

December 23, 2013

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