Author : Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531662288
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)
Book Synopsis HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETER by : Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Download or read book HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETER written by Rebecca Boggs Roberts and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic Congressional Cemetery dates from the days when Washington, DC, was a new city on the edge of a malarial swamp. The stones--sandstone tablets with colonial calligraphy, ornate Victorian statues, 20th-century art nouveau carvings, and contemporary markers in shapes as strange as picnic tables and upended cubes--are a time line of the city. The most distinctive stones are 171 cenotaphs; large cubes designed by Capitol architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe from the same sandstone used in the Capitol. They are found nowhere else. The men and women buried under those stones led lives of beauty, courage, struggle, cunning, leadership, and humor--in short, the stories of American history.