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MITCHELL, HENRY; VIDAL, GORE (FOREWORD) Washington: Houses of the Capital
The Viking Press, New York, 1982. Large Hardcover. Ill.: Moore, Derry (photographs). Very Good/Very Good. Dust jacket slightly toned. Binding tight, pages clean & unmarked. 1982 Large Hardcover. 216 pages. "Here is a lavishly illustrated tour of Washington's extraordinarily varied architecture, from the austere yet homey Lindens, the oldest house in the city (moved brick by brick from Pennsylvania), to the Indonesian Embassy, with its dazzling fin de siecle staircase, to the White House, whose recently redecorated rooms are shown. The entertaining text, rich in historical facts and anecdotes, traces the development of the city from Colonial times to the present. Henry Mitchell details the bizarre set of circumstances that led to the choice of Washington as our capital, drawing an amusing picture of L'Enfant, the difficult genius who designed the city. He introduces us to the many characters who have enlivened the Washington social scene: from Davy Burns, the Scots tobacco farmer who reluctantly sold his land to the government for the new capital, to Mrs. Taft, who pastured her cow on the White House lawn. With Derry Moore's masterly photographs, Washington reveals the city as it has never been seen before.".
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