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George Washington Memorial Auditorium Proposal Gains Ground
A national memorial plan in the capital outlines a George Washington Memorial building to be built on the Mall between Sixth and Seventh streets NW. The project, cost about 10 million dollars, would include a 7000-seat auditorium, state rooms, and national archives, funded by a 500000 dollar endowment and supported by governors, presidents, and Congress alike.
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John Dickinson Sherman Borgh
Washington
National Capitol
Americing
Congress
Mrj
Pierre Charles L’enfant
Daniel I. Burnham
Augustus St. Gandens
Charles F. McKim
Frederick Law
L’enfant
Washington Monument
Mount Vernon
George Washington National Masonic Memorial
Alexandria
Virginia
District of Columbia
Wirth
National Cathedral
Mount St. Alban
George ‘Washington
George Washington
National University At
United States of America
Street
Sixth
Seventh Streets
N. W
Capitol
Pennsylvania Depot
Garfield
Federal Commission On Wine Arts
George Washington Memorial Association
Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institution
United States
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren G. Hardley
Institute
Charles D. Walcott
James Smithson
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Library of Congress
United States National Museum
National Gallery of Art
International Exchange Service
The
Astrophysical Observatory