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Reply To: | BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D |
Date: | Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:11:33 -0400 |
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Ilene Tyler wrote:
There was a Wetmore responsible for all U.S. Government buildings of
the early 20th c. in D.C. He may not have designed them all, but his
name is on the drawings, e.g. Agriculture South (of the Ag. Bldg.) as
Architect-of-Record. He wielded a lot of power and influence during
his term of appointment. I don't have my references handy, as our
office is undergoing its final throes of renovation, the darkest
before the dawn, so to speak, with regard to finding anything.
I think Warren (?) Wetmore was Supervising Architect of the Treasury
for a while. They were sort of the GSA of government building from
some time in the early 19th century, I think, well into the 20th.
Antoinette Lee, of the NPS here in Washington, has just published a
book, "Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the
Supercising Architect's Office." Don't have publisher. She's been
working on this for years and knows everything there is to know about
the Supervising Architect. If you can find a copy of that, you can
probably find more info on Wetmore and his role and maybe some bio
stuff.
Marilyn Harper
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