Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0325Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of the exterior of a large building, a fountain can be see in front of the building. Above the image "1" is printed, below the image "32223 The union Station Gateway to the National Capitol, Washington, D.C." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
32223
THE UNION STATION, GATEWAY TO THe NATIONAL CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, D.C.
Washington, the proud capital of a grate nation, as a city of architectural splendors in a setting of unexcelled natural beauty. It is the repository of almost inexhaustible treasures of art and literature, science and history. Central power plant of the vast machinery of our own National govenrment, it is, at the same time, a clearing house of international diplomacy wherein are often formulated policies and decisions affecting the welfare of the entier world. Though the decades of its constant growth in size and importance many tempted to define its unique charm and distinction, blended of the classic glories of Athens and Rome, of the cosmopolitanism of Paris, and of the simplicities of rural America. But the charm of Washington, like that of Paris, defies definition. To comprenend it in any adequate degree its atmosphere must be experienced and aborbed, either by living in it or by studying it in detail, as we shall endeavor to study it through the medium of the Telebinocular.
Like most visitors we see first, among Washington's magnificent buildings, the Union Station, completed in 1913 at a cost to the railways and the govenrment of about $18,000,000. Since it is the chief gateway to the capital city it was appropriately designed by its architect, Daniel H. Burnham, on the motif of the triumphal arches of ancient Rome. Three massive central arches flanked by 16 smaller ones occupy its front of 620 ft., giving entrance to the General Waiting Room whose barrel-vaulted ceiling, modeled after the Baths of Diocletian, is 90 ft. in height. The Passenger Concourse, behind the Waiting Room, is served by 23 tracks and is 760 ft. long and 130 ft. wide, while the whole building covers more ground than the Capitol.
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