Historic Congressional Cemetery

Historic Congressional Cemetery dates from the days when Washington, DC, was a new city on the edge of a malarial swamp. The stones--sandstone tablets with colonial calligraphy, ornate Victorian statues, 20th-century art nouveau carvings, and contemporary markers in shapes as strange as picnic tables and upended cubes--are a time line of the city. The most distinctive stones are 171 cenotaphs; large cubes designed by Capitol architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe from the same sandstone used in the Capitol. They are found nowhere else. The men and women buried under those stones led lives of beauty, courage, struggle, cunning, leadership, and humor--in short, the stories of American history.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: 05/14/2012
ISBN: 9781531662288
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d