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Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • except the . Pennsylvania Railroad was put in crossing the Mall-(interrupt ion) Where was I? F: We had come into the Civil War . d: Then there was another hell of a thrust, and that came from Burnham- Daniel H . Burnham, fan, ous Chicago architect
  • Design of Pennsylvania Avenue; Civil War use of the Mall; Daniel H. Burnham; McMillan Commission; Smithsonian red brick castle demolition; Mrs. Jim Howe; Pennsylvania Avenue Commission; JFK’s interest in Washington; Paul Thiry; contact with LBJ