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George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to Mount Vernon, VA, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA
- Title: George Washington Memorial Parkway, Along Potomac River from McLean to Mount Vernon, VA, Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, VA
- Other Title:
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Clara Barton Memorial Parkway
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway - Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
Mount Vernon Avenue Association
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Clarke, Gilmore
Downer, Jay
Toms, R. E.
Johnson, J. W.
Simonson, Wilbur
McNary, J. V.
Barton, Clara
Mount Vernon Ladies Association
Garden Club of America
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA)
McMillan Commission
Gould, Jay
Merritt-Chapmann & Scott Corporation
U.S. Public Roads Administration
U.S. National Park Service (NPS)
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
Eliot, Charles W.
Harlow, M. B.
Fox, E. W.
Agnew, Park
Smoot, William B.
Smoot, J. C.
Hume, Frank
Snowden, W. H.
Ridley, C. W.
Reavis, John
Downham, E. E.
Hains, Peter C.
American Civic Association
National Council for the Protection of Roadside Beauty
Callahan, Charles C.
Carlin, C. C.
Moore, Charles
Campbell, Philip H.
MacDonald, Thomas
U.S. Congress, House Committee on Roads
Wilson, P. St. J.
National Capitol Park & Planning Commission
Alexandria Chamber of Commerce
MacDonald Construction Company
Westchester Electrical Equipment Company
Donn, Edward W.
Moore, R. Walton
Swanson, Claude
Cramton, Louis
Lozer, Ralph
James, E. W.
Nye, Henry C.
Holley, George G.
Day, Paul W.
American Concrete Institute
American Association of State Highway Officials
Smoot Sand & Gravel Company
Vincent Schiavi
Sixth International Road Congress
Hale, Arthur
Somervell, Brehon
Stoneyhurst Quarries
American Bridge Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
Kalman Steel Company
Woodstock Granite Company
Kennedy, Tony
Haller, Louis
McDougald Construction Company
Roberts Paving Company
Edgie Russell Company
Kibbey Engineering Company
Alexandria American War Mothers
A. Gude Sons & Company
Howell, Robert B.
Simmons, Robert G.
Dorsey, Alice B.
Fess
Harry T. Campbell & Sons Company
Corson & Gruman Company
Delashmutt Brothers
Audubon Society
Begni del Piatta, Ernesto
Weiss, Marion Gail
Manfredi, Michael
McKim, Mead & White
Calhoun, Audrey
Undeland, John
Wirth, Conrad L.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Leach, Sara Amy , project manager
McCloud, Gary , field team
Ratcliffe, Peter , field team
Gala, Michael , field team
Lupyak, Edward J. , field team
Marconi-Betka, Anna Maria , field team
Mackey, Tim , project manager
Christianson, Justine , transmitter
Young, Kelly , transmitter
Croteau, Todd A. , delineator
Lowe, Jet , photographer
Boucher, Jack E. , photographer
Dawson, Robert , delineator
Davis, Tim , historian
Kucher, Michael , historian
Wentzien, Jennifer , historian
Ratcliffe, Peter W. , delineator
Mackey, Tim , delineator
Gala, Michael , delineator
Lupyak, Edward J. , delineator
Marconi-Betka, Anna Maria , delineator
Dawson, Robert , delineator - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium:
Photo(s): 224
Measured Drawing(s): 21
Data Page(s): 396
Photo Caption Page(s): 16 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HAER VA,30-____,8-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- For related documentation, see also HAER VA-42 (Mount Vernon Memorial Highway), HALS VA-12 (Lady Bird Johnson Park 1932 Crabapple), HALS VA-13 (Lady Bird Johnson Park 1932 Ornamental Pear), HALS VA-14 (Lady Bird Johnson Park Eastern Cottonwood), HALS VA-15 ("Methuselah" Willow Oak), and HALS VA-66 (Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Commemorative Groves)
- Significance: George Washington Memorial Parkway (GWMP) is a landmark in the history of American landscape design, highway construction, and regional planning. The parkway serves as a memorial to the first president and provides an attractive approach to his home at Mount Vernon, one of the nation's most popular historic sites. The original Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (MVMH) section was the first comprehensively designed modern motorway built by the federal government. It strongly influenced parkway and highway construction throughout the United States. In addition to providing an indispensable link in the regional transportation system, GWMP preserves invaluable historic, recreational and natural resources along the Potomac River. MVMH is also the most prominent reminder of the 1932 celebration of the bicentennial of Washington's birth. The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway segment is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N408
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N746
- Survey number: HAER VA-69
- Building/structure dates: 1929-1970 Initial Construction
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 81000079
- Subjects:
- parkways
- historic house museums
- historic sites
- wildlife conservation
- transportation
- suburban life
- recreation
- country life
- City Beautiful movement
- traffic engineering
- patriotism
- civil wars
- slash-and-burn horticulture
- Native Americans
- shrines
- concession
- environmental protection
- real estate development
- forestry
- laborers
- bridges
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 38.841764, -77.0483
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER VA,30-____,8-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 224
Measured Drawing(s): 21
Data Page(s): 396
Photo Caption Page(s): 16
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- Call Number: HAER VA,30-____,8-
- Medium:
Photo(s): 224
Measured Drawing(s): 21
Data Page(s): 396
Photo Caption Page(s): 16
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