NATIONAL CAPITAL t PARKS UNITED STATES Page National DEPARTMENT OF THE Rock Creek Park .8 INTERIOR Anacostia and Fort Dupont OPEN Capital Parks J. A. Krug, Secretary Parks 8 ALL YEAR WASHINGTON Meridian Hill Park 9 19 49 Prince William Forest Park THE MALL and Catoctin Park . . 9 FROM THE CAPITOL NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Newton B. Drury, Director Parkway 9 C 0?iT EDIT S Mount Vernon Memorial HE PARKS of the National ated on the remaining reservations Highway 9 Capital embrace 750 reser­ from time to time, the most impor­ The Washington Monument vations totaling approxi­ tant being Lafayette, Judiciary, (Cover) T Roaches Run Waterfowl mately 42,000 acres of land in the Franklin, and Garfield Parks. Sanctuary 10 District of Columbia and its environs, The original areas donated for Page including the Chesapeake & Ohio streets were exceedingly wide and Early History 3 Kenilworth Aquatic Canal, which extends from Washing­ permitted the establishment of parks, ton to Cumberland, Md. The park circles, and triangles at intersections. Gardens 10 The Mall 4 system was established under author­ From such areas came Lincoln, Smaller Parks 10 ization of act of July 16, 1790, and Stanton, Farragut, McPherson, Mar­ The Washington has remained under continuous Fed­ ion, and Mount Vernon Parks; Famous Circles 11 eral control for a period of 159 years. Washington, Dupont, Scott, Thomas, Monument 4 On August 10, 1933, it became a unit and Logan Circles; and many small The White House ... 5 Additional Units of the of the National Park Service. reservations. As the Capital grew in size and The President's Park 5 System 12 EARLY HISTORY importance, additional park areas were acquired including East and The Lincoln Memorial 6 Historic Structures . ... 12 In addition to the street areas for West Potomac Parks, Rock Creek Administration 12 the Federal City, which were donated Park, the Rock Creek and Potomac West Potomac Park . . . 7 by the original owners, President Parkway, Theodore Roosevelt Is­ Hotels and Tourist Washington acquired 17 reservations land, the Mount Vernon Memorial The Thomas Jefferson by purchase. Among these were the Highway, Anacostia Park, Fort Du­ Camp 13 pont Park, Meridian Hill Park, the Memorial 7 Mall, the Capitol Grounds, and the Statues and Memorials . . 13 White House Grounds or President's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Prince Recreation 15 East Potomac Park .... 7 Park, all of which were included in William Forest and Catoctin Parks, Pierre Charles L'Enfant's plan for Fort Washington, Md., and numerous General Information ... 16 Rock Creek and Potomac the capital. Other parks were ere- smaller parks and recreational areas. Parkway 8 3 834,758 O—49 a period of many trials. One inter­ In the china room on the ground ruption in the work lasted 22 years. floor are cabinets containing speci­ An impressive obelisk, the monument mens of china used by the various is now host to approximately 1 mil­ Presidents. The second and third lion visitors each year. floors are devoted to the family and guests of the President. The second THE WHITE HOUSE floor has seven bedrooms and baths, The White House was the first in addition to the library, the public building to be erected in President's study, and a wide hall Washington, the cornerstone having extending the length of the building. been laid on October 13, 1792. The third floor has 14 rooms. The architect was James Hoban of Charleston, S. C. The design is of THE PRESIDENT'S PARK THE WHITE HOUSE SOUTH PORTICO AND THE ENCLOSED PRESIDENT S PARK the classic style of architecture. The The President's Park is divided exterior walls are light gray sand­ THE MALL the National Museum buildings. into the inner and outer portions. stone from Aquia Creek, Va., painted Along Constitution Avenue, border­ The inner portion includes the 18 The L'Enfant plan included the white. The building was first occu­ ing the Mall on the north, the acres within the iron fence enclosing unique feature of making the main pied by President and Mrs. John buildings of the "Government Tri­ the Executive Mansion and grounds central axis of the city, westward Adams in November 1800, although angle," housing the Departments of proper. The outer portion, also from the Capitol to the Potomac not entirely completed at that time. Commerce, Justice, and Labor, the known as "Grounds South of the River, a great Mall parkway about The'east and west terraces were con­ Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Executive Mansion" and the "White 1,500 feet wide containing 256 acres. structed during Jefferson's adminis­ other Federal establishments, face Lot," contains 52 acres and includes The White House is located at the tration. On August 24, 1814, the the formal parkway. The United the Ellipse. It is bordered by north end of a similar park forming building was burned by the British, States Department of Agriculture Treasury Place, South Executive a cross axis which continues south to who had captured Washington. group is located on the south side of Avenue, State Place, Fifteenth Street, the Tidal Basin and the river, inter­ Reconstruction was completed in the Mall between Twelfth and Seventeenth Street, and Constitu­ secting the Mall at the Washington December 1817. The south portico Fourteenth Streets. West of Four­ tion Avenue. Monument Grounds. The Mall was was completed in 1824, and the teenth Street is the Washington The Ellipse, bordered by stately extended west of the latter late in north portico in 1829. The execu­ Monument. American elms, provides playing the last century and reclaimed from tive offices were constructed in 1902. fields for various sports and is one the river's tidal flats to become West and the East Wing in 1942. THE WASHINGTON of the most intensively utilized rec­ Potomac Park and the site of the The main floor includes the East MONUMENT reation grounds of the park system. Lincoln Memorial. Room; the Green Room; the ellipti­ The "Grounds South" provides a Today the Mall is one of the The Washington Monument is to cal-shaped Blue Room, where the park setting for the south facades of world's famous parkways. In an a high degree the symbol of the President receives foreign diplomats the Treasury and State-War-Navy impressive plaza in the Mall, at the Capital City which George Wash­ presenting credentials and guests at Buildings, the Commerce Building foot of the Capitol, is Union Square. ington founded and planned. Begun State dinners and receptions; the on the east; and the Corcoran Art At Sixth Street is the National Gal­ in 1848 by a society which had Red Room, in which the First Lady Gallery, the American Red Cross lery of Art. Continuing west, be­ been formed in 1833 under the receives guests by appointment; the Building, the National Headquarters tween Seventh and Twelfth Streets, chairmanship of Chief Justice John State Dining Room, used for all of the Society of the Daughters of are the United States Army Medical Marshall, the monument was carried large dinners and luncheons; and the American Revolution, and the Museum, the Smithsonian Institu­ to a total height of 555 feet 5/8 the Private Dining Room, reserved Hall of the Americas, home of the tion, the Freer Art Galleries, and inches and completed in 1884, after for the use of the President's family. 4 5 English elms. At the eastern end cellence and beauty of setting it com­ of the main pool is an oval basin and pares favorably with the Lincoln fountain. This basin is 300 feet long Memorial and provides a suitable by 160 feet wide. companion edifice, completing the 5-point design plan for the central WEST POTOMAC PARK area, which embraces the Capitol, At the western extremity of West the Washington Monument, the Potomac Park is the memorial to White House, and the Lincoln and John Ericsson, inventor of the screw Jefferson Memorials. propeller. To the east is the Tidal On the four diagonal panels and Basin, surrounded by the famous along the frieze of the main entabla­ Oriental cherry trees presented by ture encircling the memorial room the city of Tokyo during the Taft are found inscriptions based upon the administration. These trees provide writings of Jefferson embodying the a picturesque setting for the Thomas principal tenets of his philosophy. A Jefferson Memorial. In spring, when sculptural group in the center of the in blossom, they are a feature of tympanum of the north portico de­ THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL especial beauty and interest. They picts Jefferson reading his draft of the Declaration of Independence before Pan-American Union, on the west. a colossal marble statue of the were planted in 1912 by Viscountess the committee appointed by the Con­ It contains an equestrian statue of Emancipator. On the north wall is Chinda, wife of the Japanese Ambas­ tinental Congress to draft this noted Gen. William T. Sherman, the Butt- inscribed Lincoln's Second Inaugural sador, and Mrs. William Howard American document. Millet Memorial, the First and Address and on the south wall, Taft. The pansy beds of West The Jefferson Memorial was dedi­ Second Division (A. E. F.) Me­ the Gettysburg speech. Above are Potomac Park, containing more than cated on April 13, 1943, the 200th morials, and the Zero Milestone. two paintings on canvas, represent­ 1,000,000 blooms, are also a major anniversary of the birth of Jefferson. ing "Reunion and Progress" and attraction during the spring months. THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL "Emancipation of a Race." Subor­ The park contains extensive facilities EAST POTOMAC PARK West of the Washington Monu­ dinate groups represent "Civiliza­ for recreation, featuring golf, polo, ment is the Lincoln Memorial. tion and Progress." softball, cycling, horseback riding, East Potomac Park, 327 acres of This is admittedly one of the finest The memorial was designed by fishing, boating, skating, football, land reclaimed through the dredging memorials of modern times. The Henry Bacon, architect; the statue soccer, and hockey. of the Washington Channel, contains exterior of the memorial building by Daniel Chester French, sculptor; the Washington tourist camp; the THE THOMAS JEFFERSON symbolizes the Union of the States. and the paintings are by Jules Speedway, a park drive 3/i miles MEMORIAL Thirty-six columns of Colorado Guerin. long which skirts the seawalls of the marble form a colonnade represent­ To the east of the memorial, The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Georgetown and Washington Chan­ ing the 36 States which existed at the extending toward the Washington is of the Pantheon design, surrounded nels to lead the motorist to Hains time of Lincoln's death, the frieze Monument, lies a great reflecting by a peristyle of Ionic columns, con­ Point at the confluence of the Po­ above it bearing the names of the pool in the still waters of which is taining a central circular room ap-^ tomac and Anacostia Rivers; four 9- States. On the marble walls above reflected the Lincoln Memorial at proximately 80 feet in diameter with hole golf courses; and a swimming the colonnade are the names of the one end and the Washington Monu­ a domed ceiling. A heroic bronze pool, a tea house, picnic grove, and 48 States of the Union as they exist ment at the other. This pool is figure of Jefferson by Rudulph Evans bicycle rental concession. today. 1,992 feet long and 160 feet wide. stands in the center of the marble- The park is bordered by giant wil­ Inside is a sanctuary containing It is bordered by two rows of stately lined room. For architectural ex­ lows, whose boughs bend over the

6 7 devoted to recreational uses. There Forest Park, located approximately are three 9-hole golf courses, 10 35 miles south of Washington, near tennis courts, 4 baseball diamonds, Quantico, Va., and the 10,000-acre 4 football fields, and croquet and Catoctin Park, 60 miles north of quoit courts. Flowering crabapple Washington, at Thurmont, Md., trees border the driveway along the offer completely equipped group seawall between the Eleventh Street camps provided with sleeping cabins, and John Philip Sousa Bridges. recreation and dining halls, and out­ Connecting with Anacostia Park, door and indoor cooking facilities. but entirely different in character, is Swimming, hiking, and general rec­ rugged Fort Dupont Park, now in reational facilities are provided in development. This natural area car­ these picturesque rural areas. Camps ries high into the hills guarding the are available to organized groups Anacostia and offers opportunity for only, on seasonal or short-term basis. treatment similar to Rock Creek Circulars containing complete infor­ THE MAGNIPICANT BRONZE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF GEN. U. S. GRANT IN UNION SQUARE Park. Golf, picnic groves, and hik­ mation will be furnished on request. GUARDS THE WESTERN FACADE OF THE CAPITOL ing and saddle trails feature its seawalls, and double flowering Orien­ acres) and most unusual parks of recreational facilities. CHESAPEAKE & OHIO CANAL tal cherry trees. any American city. Its slopes are PARKWAY MERIDIAN HILL PARK covered with a great variety of wild The historic old Chesapeake & ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC flowers, and in the spring the tumb­ Bordered by Fifteenth and Six­ Ohio Canal, which traces its incep­ PARKWAY ling stream and the park highways teenth, Euclid and W Streets NW., tion to Washington's dream of a are fringed with the glistening pink The northwest residential section is Meridian Hill Park. Designed as Potomac route to the West, was and white blossoms of flowering of the city of Washington is divided a modern French-Italian garden, it acquired in 1938. Extending 185 trees. In the more secluded retreats features a high terrace overlooking from the District line to the Potomac miles northwesterly to Cumberland, a surprising wildlife abounds. the city and a great water cascade. River by the rough and picturesque Md., the property contains 5,254 Historic Pierce Mill, Milk House It contains reproductions of the Joan valley of Rock Creek. The por­ acres. A total of 75 locks lift the Ford, the Joaquin Miller Cabin, of Arc statue by Paul Dubois and the tion of this valley south of National elevation of the canal bed from 5 and dogwood-lined Ridge Road are Ximenes statue of Dante; a monu­ Zoological Park, and connecting with feet at Georgetown to 610 feet at principal features of interest. Its ment to President Buchanan by Hans West Potomac Park at the Lincoln Cumberland. The 22-mile section recreational facilities include two Schuler; and Serenity, a memorial to Memorial, is known as the Rock between Washington and Seneca, 9-hole public golf courses, a group Lt. Comdr. William Henry Schuetz Creek and Potomac Parkway. Md., has been reconstructed as a of 18 tennis courts, 24 picnic groves, by Jose Clara. The park is an out­ recreational waterway. The area is and more than 30 miles of bridle standing architectural feature of the ROCK CREEK PARK rich in scenic value and is a fertile paths. National Capital Parks and is not field for the nature student. North of the National Zoological duplicated in any other American ANACOSTIA AND FORT Park, which is administered by the city. DUPONT PARKS Smithsonian Institution, is Rock MOUNT VERNON MEMORIAL Creek Park, the largest recreational Anacostia Park, bordering the PRINCE WILLIAM FOREST HIGHWAY area of the capital park system. Anacostia River in southeast Wash­ PARK AND CATOCTIN From the western extremity of The park treatment of the Rock ington and containing 277 acres, PARK Arlington Memorial Bridge, on Co­ Creek Valley has given Washington was developed through reclamation The 14,300-acre Prince William one of the largest (nearly 1,800 of the Anacostia flats. The area is lumbia Island, Mount Vernon Me- 8 9 morial Highway extends approxi­ of wild duck and other waterfowl mately 15 miles along the Virginia common to eastern North America shore of the Potomac to the Mount make the sanctuary a stopping place Vernon estate. during the migration period. A Winding through the beautiful resident population of approximately Virginia countryside and affording 600 ducks, principally mallards and lovely vistas of the Potomac, this pintails, and an interesting group of highway passes many places of his­ wader birds make the sanctuary their toric interest. In Alexandria the year-round residence. highway passes Christ Church, where Washington and Lee worshiped. A KENILWORTH AQUATIC few blocks away is Gadsby's Tavern, GARDENS where Washington recruited his first troops; the historic Carlyle House; Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, the Ramsaye House; the old Presby­ comprising 40 pools and covering terian Meeting House and church­ approximately 8.8 acres, feature more yard where the Unknown Soldier of than 100,000 flowering water plants. the American Revolution is buried. The hardy domestic varieties, rare THE TITANIC MEMORIAL exotic species, and night-blooming Below Alexandria the highway passes Franklin Park occupies a square eties, two-thirds of the plants being Wellington, the former home of lilies vie with lotus, water iris, and block betwen I and K Streets and of American origin. Tobias Lear, secretary and adviser numerous subaquatics which make Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets Fort Stevens Park is located at to the First President. Across the the gardens their habitat. The hardy NW. A monument to Commodore Piney Branch Road and Quacken- Potomac is Fort Washington, de­ varieties begin blooming about June Barry of the Revolutionary Navy, by bos Street NW. Here, on July 11 signed by L'Enfant. 15 and the tropicals and night bloom­ John F. Doyle, is at the west end. and 12, 1864, troops under the com­ ers in mid-July. They continue until Mount Vernon Memorial High­ Surrounded by modern hotels, office mand of Gen. Horatio G. Wright early September. The gardens are way is the first unit to be completed buildings, and shops, this interesting successfully halted the advance of open to the public from 8 a. m. to 4 in the proposed George Washington park contains more than 400 trees Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate Army p. m. each day, but make their best Memorial Parkway, following the and shrubs, representing 76 distinct and saved the Capital from a daring display before noon. They are Potomac River from Mount Vernon species, and contributes an interesting attack. The Federal and Confeder­ reached via Kenilworth Avenue and to Great Falls. Another completed touch of nature to downtown Wash­ ate losses totaled nearly 900 killed Douglas Street NE. extension carries the parkway to ington. and wounded. During the firing on Francis Scott Key Bridge, opposite Lincoln Park, at Eleventh and July 11, President Lincoln stood upon Georgetown, and connects with the SMALLER PARKS East Capitol Streets NE., is noted a parapet observing the progress of Arlington County parkways. Lafayette Park, north of the White for many of the oldest trees in Wash­ the battle. This is the only occasion House, contains the Clark Mills statue ington and for Thomas Ball's statue on which a President of the United ROACHES RUN WATERFOWL of Andrew Jackson (1853, probably of President Lincoln freeing the States has been under fire of enemy SANCTUARY the oldest equestrian statue cast in slaves, presented by emancipated guns while in office. A monument The National Capital Parks Water­ America); the statues of Lafayette by citizens of the United States in 1876. and tablet commemorate the event. fowl Sanctuary is located at Roaches Alexander Falquier and Antonin In keeping with the spirit of this FAMOUS CIRCLES Run adjacent to the National Airport Mercie; Rochambeau by F. Hamar; park, dedicated to the memory of along the Mount Vernon Memorial Von Steuben by Albert Jaegers; and Lincoln, native species of trees and Dupont Circle, which is at the Highway. Practically all varieties Kosciuszko by Antoni Popiel. shrubs predominate over exotic vari­ intersection of Connecticut and Mas-

10 11 sachusetts Avenues NW., contains a ger, and Marion Parks; Farragut ment of the Interior, in immediate vision of National Capital Parks in fountain by Daniel Chester French, Square; and Logan, Sheridan, Sher­ charge of the Superintendent, whose East Potomac Park. dedicated to the memory of Admiral man, Grant, Chevy Chase, and address is Room 1228, Interior Information relative to hotel rates Samuel Francis Dupont. Truxton Circles. Building, Washington 25, D. C. and reservations can be obtained by East of Dupont Circle on Massa­ writing the Hotel Association of chusetts Avenue, at the intersection HISTORIC STRUCTURES HOTELS AND TOURIST CAMP Washington, 1331 G Street NW., with Sixteenth Street NW., is Scott On opposite sides of Tenth Street Washington, D. C. For information Circle where statues memorialize There are approximately 150 hotels between E and F, in the heart of regarding the Tourist Camp, write Gen. Winfield Scott, Daniel Webster, and many first-class rooming houses Washington's business district, are and Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. in Washington offering accommo­ Government Services, Inc., 1135 two unpretentious structures closely dations for visitors. A public tourist Twenty-First Street NW., Washing­ Thomas Circle, two blocks east on connected with one of the great camp is operated under the super­ ton, D. C. Massachusetts Avenue at the inter­ tragedies in American history. One section of Vermont Avenue, Four­ is the old Ford Theater, where teenth and M Streets NW., is dedi­ STATUES AND MEMORIALS Abraham Lincoln was shot, now cated to the memory of Maj. Gen. filled with relics of the Great Emanci­ Asbury, Francis Equestrian 16th and Mount Pleasant Sts. George H. Thomas. pator and called the Lincoln Mu­ NW. Washington Circle, on Pennsyl­ seum. The other is the house in Barry, John Standing Franklin Park. Bryan, William Jennings do 26th and Constitution Ave. vania Avenue at Twenty-third Street which he died. It also contains a NW., toward Georgetown, contains Buchanan, James do Meridian Hill Park. wealth of historical treasures. Burke, Edmund do Massachusetts Ave. and 11th an excellent equestrian statue of The Lee Mansion, in Arlington St. NW. George Washington. National Cemetery, was built by Butt-Millet Memorial Monumental Fountain . Ellipse. George Washington Parke Custis, Columbus, Christopher Fountain Union Station Plaza. ADDITIONAL UNITS OF THE Cuban Friendship Urn West Potomac Park. SYSTEM foster son of George Washington and Daguerre, L. J. H\ Bust Mall. grandson of Martha Washington. No tour of the National Capital Dante Standing Meridian Hill Park. Robert E. Lee, commander in chief Darlington, Joseph J Fountain Judiciary Park. Parks would be complete without a of the armies of the Confederacy, District of Columbia World War Memorial band stand. . West Potomac Park. visit to Garfield Park at Virginia Memorial. became master of Arlington when Avenue and Third Street SE.; the Downing, Andrew Jackson Vase Mall. he married the daughter of George Union Station Plaza, with the Chris­ Dupont Memorial Fountain. . . . Monumental Dupont Circle. Washington Parke Custis. The Ericsson, John Sitting West Potomac Park. topher Columbus Memorial; Fort mansion, which was seized by Fed­ Farragut, David G Standing Farragut Square. Bunker Hill Park at Thirteenth and eral troops in the early part of the First Division Memorial Column President's Park. Perry Streets NE., its shaded slopes Fort Stevens Boulder 13th and Piney Branch Rd. NW. Civil War, has been restored insofar bright with blooming dogwood and Garfield, James Standing 1st St. and Maryland Ave. SW. as possible to its original furnishings. mountain laurel; and Montrose Park, Gibbons, James Cardinal Sitting Park Rd. and 16th St. NW. On a slope a short distance from Gompcrs, Samuel do 10th St. and Massachusetts in old Georgetown, one of the real the portico of the mansion, over­ Ave. NW. beauty spots of the Capital City. looking the city which he planned, Grant, Ulysses S., Gen Equestrian Mall and 1st St. SW. The remaining parks consist chiefly Greene, Nathanael, Gen do Stanton Park. is the grave of L'Enfant. of small squares, circles, and triangles Gross, Samuel D., Dr Standing Mall. at multiple street intersections, but Hahnemann, Samuel, Dr Sitting Scott Circle. ADMINISTRATION Hancock, Winfield Scott Equestrian 7th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. many of them contain monuments NW. and memorials of national character The National Capital Parks are Henry, Joseph, Prof Standing Mall. and interest. Among these reserva­ operated as a unit of the National Jackson, Andrew Equestrian Lafayette Park. tions are McPherson, Rawlins, Fol- Park Service, United States Depart- Jefferson, Thomas Building West Potomac Park. 12 13 STATUES AND MEMORIALS—Continued STATUES AND MEMORIALS—Continued Joan of Arc Equestrian Meridian Hill Park. Peace or "Naval" Monument. . Standing Pennsylvania Ave. and 1st St. Jones, John Paul Standing West Potomac Park. NW. Jusscrand, Jules Memorial Bench Rock Creek Park. Ninety-Eighth Pennsylvania Vol- Column 6625 Georgia Ave. NW. Kosciuszko, Thaddeus Standing Lafayette Park. unteers. Serenity Sitting Meridian Hill Park. Pike, Albert Standing Indiana Ave. and 3d St. NW. Lafayette and compatriots Standing Lafayette Park. Pulaski, Count Equestrian Pennsylvania Ave. and 13th St. Lee Mansion House Arlington National Cemetery NW. Lincoln, Abraham Standing Lincoln Park. Rawlins, John A., Gen Standing Rawlins Park. Do do Judiciary Park. Rochambeau do Lafayette Park. Lincoln Memorial Building West Potomac Park. San Martin Equestrian Judiciary Park. Logan, John A., Gen Equestrian Logan Circle. Second Division, A. E. F Monumental Ellipse. Longfellow, Henry W Sitting Connecticut Ave. and 18th St. Scott, Winfield Equestrian Scott Circle. NW. Sheridan, Philip H., Gen do Sheridan Circle. Meade, George Gordon, Gen. . . Standing Union Square. Sherman, William T., Gen do Sherman Plaza. McClcllan, George B., Gen.... Equestrian Connecticut Ave. and Califor­ Stephenson G. A. R Monumental 7th and C Sts. NW. nia St. NW. Thomas, George H., Gen Equestrian Thomas Circle. McPherson, Jas. B., Maj. Gen do McPherson Square. The Zero Milestone Shaft Ellipse. Nuns of the Battlefield Monumental Rhode Island Ave. and M St. Von Steuben, Baron Standing Lafayette Park. NW. Ward, Artemas, Gen do Nebraska and Massachusetts Navy-Marine do Columbia Island. Aves. NW. Newlands, Francis G Fountain Chevy Chase Circle. Washington, George, Gen Equestrian Washington Circle. • Twenty-Fifth New York Volun- Standing 6625 Georgia Ave. NW. Washington Monument Obelisk Monument Grounds. tcers. Webster, Daniel Standing Scott Circle. One Hundred Twenty-Second Column Do. Witherspoon, John do Connecticut Ave. and N St. NW. New York Volunteers. Women's Titanic Memorial do New Hampshire Ave. and E Noyes, Edith Armillary Sphere Meridian Hill Park. St. NW. One Hundred and Fiftieth Ohio Column 6625 Georgia Ave. NW. National Guard. RECREATION Original Patentees, District of .... do Ellipse. Columbia. THE FOLLOWING RECREATIONAL FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED IN THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS:

Type Number Type Number Archery greens 6 Paddle tennis courts 2 Athletic fields 3 Picnic groves 102 Baseball diamonds 18 Playgrounds 23 Basketball courts 4 Polo fields 2 Bathing pools 6 Race boat courses 2 Boating 2 Sandboxes 23 Bridle paths miles. . 60 Skating, ice 2 Croquet courts ....'. 12 Skating, roller 3 Equitation fields 1 Soccer fields 2 Field hockey 5 Softball diamonds 44 Fishing 7 Sylvan theatres 3 Fly casting 1 Symphony concert shell 1 Football gridirons 17 Tea houses 2 Golf courses 10 Tennis courts 81 Horse hurdles 20 Track 3 Horseshoe courts 55 Volleyball courts 8 Marble rings 7 Wading pools 3 15 PICNIC CKOUND IN ROCK CREEK PARK GENERAL INFORMATION

Permits for camping; use of picnic groves Campflre programs.—Every Saturday night in National Capital Park areas located during summer season, Sixteenth Street in Maryland and Virginia; fly casting; and Colorado Avenue NW., Rock parades and ceremonies; meetings; use Creek Park. of Sylvan Theater and symphony con­ Nature outings.—Saturdays and Sundays, cert shell apply in person, or in writing, April through November. See news­ papers for special events. Room 1223, Interior Building, Eight­ History walks.—Sundays, June through eenth and C Streets NW. For all other September. See newspapers for special activities apply at site or at District of events. Columbia Recreation Department, 3149 Chesapeake & Ohio Canal mule-drawn barge Sixteenth Street NW. Telephone: trips.—Saturdays and Sundays, June ADams 2050. through October. See newspapers for Photos.—No permits necessary. For spe­ further information or call REpublic cial arrangements apply Room 1225, 1820, Extension 2557. Interior Building. Memorials.—Open to public— Parking.—Obey police signs. No parking Washington Monument: 9 a. m. to on unlighted park roads after sundown. 5 p. m., daily. Lincoln Museum: 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., Camping.—Tourist Camp, East Potomac Monday through Saturday, 12:30 p. m. Park; group camping Prince William to 9 p. m., Sundays and holidays. Forest and Catoctin Parks. See pages Lincoln Memorial: 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., 7 and 9. daily. Watergate programs.—June through Sep­ Jefferson Memorial: 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., tember. See local papers for schedule. daily. Sylvan Theater programs.—See local papers Lee Mansion: October through March, or telephone REpublic 1820, Extension 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., daily; April 2095. through September, 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.

For additional information, write Superintendent, National Capital Parks, Interior Building, Washington 25, D. C, or telephone REpublic 1820, Extension 2095.

IN MARCH OF EACH YEAR THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS PUBLISHES AN "OUTDOOR PROGRAM" LISTING ALL SCHEDULED OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES FOR THE COMING SUMMER SEASON, INCLUDING NATURE AND HISTORY WALKS, CAMPFIRE PRO­ GRAMS, AUTOMOBILE CARAVANS, AND CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL BARGE TRIPS. COPIES MAY BE OBTAINED BY ADDRESS­ ING A REQUEST TO THE SUPERINTENDENT, NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

NOT IN NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK SYSTEM

Mount Vernon Estate: Public buildings: Visiting hours, November through Feb- 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m., weekdays. uary, 9 a. m. to 4 p.m.; March through October, 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m.

ALL MEMORIALS CLOSED ALL DAY, DECEMBER 25 16 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1949