#188 11/21/17 picture of a bldg from air - landscaping showing owl shape. What bldg is it?
How about it, FRiend reasonisfaith? Can you (or any here) shed light on what that place is? It’s driving me nuts! I don’t recall a discussion about it.
U.S. Capitol Grounds, as changed from the original Owl street layout added sometime
between 1860 and 1901 in the McMillan Plan.
The 1901 McMillan Plan for the Capitol Mall. Note the Owl is not quite as defined as later as there is a
military post where the tail is later more angularly defined in modern times and the traffic circles had
not yet been built which now define the claws.
Up until the Civil War, the area to the East of the Capitol was Victorian parkland, of trees, with little grass, and no roads, so no definition for the owl's head.
The Capitol grounds were designed by Mason Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmstead was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park in New York City.
Thank you so much for the graphics and historical info on the owl layout, Swordmaker. Fascinating. That definitely gives me something to ponder - especially the timing of how that configuration into modern form took place.
What's past is prologue" is a quotation by William Shakespeare from his play The Tempest. Antonio uses it to suggest that all that has happened before that time, the "past," has led Sebastian and himself to this opportunity to do what they are about to do: commit murder.
In contemporary use, the phrase stands for the idea tthat history sets the context for the present. The quotation is engraved on the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. andis commonly used by the military when discussing the similarities between war throughout history.
“What's past is prologue” is carved on the National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.. SUBJECTS: Past and future. WORKS ...
The Rotunda of the National Archives Building in downtown Washington, DC, displays the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence.
Both writings are kept at the Archives Building in DC.
Past and Present..this is my thoughts ...Past works of history stored in the present Archives Building in DC.