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• Conservatory
  amusement.” When architect Robert Mills proposed a building for the National Institute in Washington, DC, in 1841, he presented a Gothic revival museum with
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• Botanic garden
  Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 123) “[ Columbian Institute lottery for]
  63 KB (8,784 words) - 14:42, March 8, 2021
• Robert Mills
  Robert Mills, Elevation of the South Front and Plan of the First Floor, National Institute, February 1841. Robert Mills, Sketch of the Washington Nat’l. Monumt
  31 KB (4,335 words) - 20:13, August 18, 2021
• Canal
  specimen of correct taste and workmanship.” Columbian Institute, 1823, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 127) “The
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Hothouse
  Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 123) “[Columbian Institute lottery for]
  51 KB (7,192 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• Greenhouse
  Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O'Malley 1989: 123) “[Columbian Institute lottery for]
  122 KB (17,951 words) - 18:15, August 10, 2021
• Pond
  [[[jet]]] at the fountain considerably.” Columbian Institute, 1823, in a report describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 127)
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• National Mall
  the west. Both as a national icon and a civic space, the Mall is a key landmark of the nation’s capital. The origins of the National Mall can be traced
  34 KB (4,340 words) - 18:12, August 25, 2021
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  Henry Latrobe, “Constitution of the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences,” National Register [Washington, DC] 1 (1816): 405, view
  38 KB (4,911 words) - 18:08, September 16, 2021
• Walk
  forest trees on the top of [an] eminence.” Columbian Institute, 1823, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, DC (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 127) “Four
  146 KB (20,921 words) - 14:54, August 13, 2021
• Columbian Institute
  Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences,” published by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, secretary of the Columbian Institute, in The National Register
  34 KB (4,708 words) - 21:36, August 16, 2021
• Plantation
  scattered plantations in New-England have retained in great measure the national characteristics of their country. Those, by whom these plantations were
  67 KB (9,385 words) - 19:03, February 3, 2021
• Andrew Jackson Downing
  Capitol Grounds would connect to the national Botanic Garden, located on the site of the former Columbian Institute, and then, continuing westward, to “Fountain
  60 KB (7,882 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Prospect
  describing a design for Elias Hasket Derby Farm, Peabody, MA (Peabody Essex Institute, Phillips Library, Derby Papers) “If there is any Prospect that is agreeable
  57 KB (7,849 words) - 15:06, August 13, 2021
• Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane
  (Philadelphia:1869, 10). "A history of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital," Penn Medicine Kirkbride's Hospital (National Park Service) “Moral treatment” grew
  33 KB (4,371 words) - 21:34, August 25, 2021
• Public garden/Public ground
  Garden be properly laid out, and cultivated as a National Garden; to effect which important national objects, a sum not exceeding 30,000 dollars will be
  42 KB (5,954 words) - 14:27, March 10, 2021
• Square
  also the several squares which are intended for the Judiciary Courts, the National Bank, the grand Church, the play house, markets and exchange, offering
  67 KB (9,305 words) - 17:36, April 8, 2021
• Mall
  mall was used for more “civilized” activities, such as promenading. The national Mall in Washington, DC, was the preferred site for “gainful recreation”;
  20 KB (2,767 words) - 10:38, April 6, 2021
• Piazza
  Second, the associative values of refinement and domesticity, and even national progress, were read into the forms. In 1828, Frances Milton Trollope, the
  57 KB (7,617 words) - 13:34, April 1, 2021
• Eminence
  Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Philip Alexius de Laszlo), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Rufus Porter, Landscape mural from Howe
  30 KB (3,989 words) - 13:38, April 12, 2021

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