Eric & I Walk Near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Pierre Charles L'Enfant planned the National Capital for the fledgling United States in 1791. (The Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War was approved by Congress in 1784.) Washington D.C. is envisioned as a series of circles, diagonal streets, public squares, broad avenues and imposing buildings.  Washington, D.C. is the seat of federal government with many government buildings, statues and memorials.




The Library of Congress
is across the street from
the Capitol.

Established by Congress in
1800, this building was
completed n 1897.

 

The Supreme Court

faces the Capitol.

Looking across the
Capitol Reflecting 
Pool & the National
Mall to the
Washington Monument.

The Peace Monument has several

names: Naval Monument,

Navy Monument.

It was erected in 1877 to

memorialize the seamen 

who died during the

Civil War.

The Ulysses S. Grant

Memorial was 

dedicated in 1922.

***Interesting Ulysses S. Grant Factoid:  A dying Ulysses S. Grant penned his memoirs at a cottage in Wilton, New York, 35 miles from my former house in Rotterdam, New York.

The President James A.

Garfield Memorial

was unveiled in 1887.

Elected in 1880, President Garfield was shot by Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled office seeker on July 2, 1881.  He died September 19, 1881 from his wound. 

It's time for Eric and I to walk to the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center and line up for a tour of the building.