File:INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, DETAIL OF COLUMN CAPITAL - Army War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, entrance on P Street between Third and Fourth Streets Southwest, Washington, District of HABS DC,WASH,393-10.tif

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INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, DETAIL OF COLUMN CAPITAL - Army War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, entrance on P Street between Third and Fourth Streets Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Root, Elihu
Roosevelt, Theodore
McKim, Mead and White
Snead and Company Ironworks
Vergara, transmitter
Robinson and Associates, Inc., contractor
Smalling, William, photographer
Bobeczko, Laura L, historian
Robinson, Judith H, historian
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
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INTERIOR, ROTUNDA, DETAIL OF COLUMN CAPITAL - Army War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, entrance on P Street between Third and Fourth Streets Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS DC,WASH,393-10
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  • Significance: Was established as a central feature of the "New Army," created by President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War Elihu Root. The building is thus a physical manifestation of America's growing perception of itself as a world power at the turn of the century. Served as central educational and coordinating unit in adapting the army forts part in this new world leadership.
  • Survey number: HABS DC-277
  • Building/structure dates: 1903-1907 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1946 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1964 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72001535.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0440.photos.028421p
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Camera location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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