File:PAIRED VIEW OF MEADOW, LOOKING TOWARD ROSS DRIVE, WITH MILITARY ROAD TO THE LEFT (LEFT IMAGE). VIEW E. - Rock Creek Park Road System, Washington, District of Columbia, DC HAER DC,WASH,692-11.tif

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PAIRED VIEW OF MEADOW, LOOKING TOWARD ROSS DRIVE, WITH MILITARY ROAD TO THE LEFT (LEFT IMAGE). VIEW E. - Rock Creek Park Road System, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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Lowe, Jet

Related names:

Beach, Lansing H; Sherrill, Clarence O; Grant, Ulysses S; Langdon, James G; Payne, Irving; Olmsted, Frederick Law; U S Army Corps of Engineers; U S Bureau of Public Roads; Park Roads Program, National Park Service, sponsor; Gringles, John, sponsor; Christianson, Justine, transmitter; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
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PAIRED VIEW OF MEADOW, LOOKING TOWARD ROSS DRIVE, WITH MILITARY ROAD TO THE LEFT (LEFT IMAGE). VIEW E. - Rock Creek Park Road System, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date 1996
date QS:P571,+1996-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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
HAER DC,WASH,692-11
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Rock Creek Park was created in 1890 to preserve a large section of the wooded valley formed by Rock Creek as a "public park and pleasuring ground" for the nation's capital. Rock Creek Park is one of the largest "natural" urban parks in the United States and the only one owned and maintained by the federal government. The park road system was developed to afford access to the park's scenery and recreational areas and to provide opportunities for recreational driving. Rock Creek Park and its road system embody the classic principles of park development and park road design that played a prominent role in the development of the American urban landscape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Several of the park's bridges are historically significant as pioneering American engineering accomplishments and outstanding examples of civic art. The park road system maintains a high degree of historical integrity despite considerable pressure to construct an express thoroughfare through the park in the 1950s.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N741
  • Survey number: HAER DC-55
  • Building/structure dates: 1897-1912 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1933-1938 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0966.photos.383991p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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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