Difference between revisions of "Columbian Institute"

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Location: Washington, D.C.
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Memorial of the Columbian Institute, December 1818, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, D.C. (quoted in O'Malley 1989: 123)^[1]

"[Columbian Institute lottery for] enclosing the grounds, for the erection of their hall—their laboratory—their hot and green houses,—their library and museum, and for the cultivation of the botanic garden, wherein they hoped 'to soon present to the view of their fellow citizens specimens of all the plants of this middle region of our country, with others exotic and domestic . . . for the promotion of a great national object.'"

Anonymous, May 26, 1824, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, D.C. (quoted in O’Malley 1989: 132) ^[1]

"1st. The water of Tiber Creek being thus conducted into the Capitol square, will afford ample security against the progress of fire."

Commissioner of Public Buildings, June 9, 1827, describing the Columbian Institute, Washington, D.C. (quoted in O'Malley 1989: 133)^[1]

"The new section of the Washington Canal was laid out along a line drawn through the middle of the Capitol and of the Mall. The pathway, canal and plantation in the garden do not coincide with this line, but diverge from it at an acute angle."

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Anonymous, Map of the Columbian Institute's plot for a botanical garden on the Mall, 1820.
H. Meigs, Edifice for Columbian Institute, June 7, 1820.

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Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Therese O'Malley, "Art and Science in American Landscape Architecture: The National Mall, Washington, D.C. 1791–1852" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1989), view on Zotero.

[OMalley_1989-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Therese O'Malley, "Art and Science in American Landscape Architecture: The National Mall, Washington, D.C. 1791–1852" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1989), view on Zotero.

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-:"The new section of the Washington [[Canal]] was laid out along a line drawn through the middle of the Capitol and of the Mall. The pathway, [[canal]] and [[plantation]] in the garden do not coincide with this line, but diverge from it at an acute angle."
+:"The new section of the Washington [[Canal]] was laid out along a line drawn through the middle of the Capitol and of the [[National Mall|Mall]]. The pathway, [[canal]] and [[plantation]] in the garden do not coincide with this line, but diverge from it at an acute angle."
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