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- 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
- : Mr. Jerry Voorhis. Monadnock Building. That is correct? M: Monadnock. This is an interview with It's a famous historic building, designed by Burnham and Root, as I recall. V: Yes. M: A landmark in Chicago. V: And the last major building
- that. I can't tell. The thing that I thought was that you can't force people to obey laws, that police can't really control society. I noticed the David Burnham article in the New York Times this morning in which he said it would cost twenty-five billion
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- House grounds, knowing that Jefferson had designed the mounds, knowing that [Daniel Hudson] Burnham and [Frederick Law] Olmstead had in some way contributed to the layout of the grounds and the planning arrangements. But he asked if we knew who had