Treasury Building under construction: View of front façade, Washington, District of Columbia

People:

William England (photographer)

Title:

Treasury Building under construction: View of front façade, Washington, District of Columbia

Date:

ca. 1858

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 stereoscopic photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver stereograph

Dimensions:

comp.: 7.5 x 7.0 cm secondary support: 8.2 x 17.3 cm sheet: 7.5 x 7.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:0123

Inscription:

inscribed - No. 122 - THE TREASURYBUILDING, WASHINGTON, U.S. / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / The TreasureBuilding, Washington, U.S. / The Treasury, Washington, is a new and imposingstructure of stone. The original building was three hundred / and forty feetlong and one hundred and seventy wide. This portion is now being extended, andwhen / completed, the total length of this department will be 465 feet,exclusive of the porticos, by 266 in width. / The style of architecture isthat known as Grecian Ionic, and the material of which the building iscomposed / is hammered granite. It will present four fronts upon as manystreets, the long rectangular space between the / fronts being subdivided bya centre building, extending from east to west, into two courts, each about130 feet / square. These large interior courts will be adorned with grass,flowers, etc. ( in brown ink, printed, on mount, verso, LC, C, CR )

Location:

Washington (D.C.); United States;

Subject Descriptive Terms:

treasury

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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