Building Washington : : engineering and construction of a new Federal City, 1790-1840 / / Robert J. Kapsch.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Project planning and construction efforts. Pierre L'Enfant's two plans for executing the president's vision
- Financing the Federal City : the difficulty of collecting adequate funds
- Constructing the Federal City : gathering materials and workers
- Developing a commercial center: harbor navigation and river improvements
- Early infrastructure and transport improvements
- Building military defenses for the capital
- Building campaigns: a timeline of Washington, D.C.'s first fifty years. The first public building campaign (1791-1802): clashing commissioners and
- Workers
- The second public building campaign (1803-1811): the president and the architect
- The third public building campaign (1815-1824): rebuilding the Federal City
- Later transportation improvements: canals and aqueducts
- Epilogue: building a new Federal City.