Columbian Institute
[http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/research/casva/research-projects.html A Project of the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts ]
Overview
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Location: Washington, D.C.
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History
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Texts
- 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."
Images
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.
Other Resources
Notes
- ↑ O'Malley 1989, view on Zotero.
