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The National Building Museum has an exhibit now of plans for buildings in Washington that were never built, and the Post has a
slide show. I love thinking about how different the places I know might have been. Above John Russel Pope's plan for Lincoln Memorial.
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Design for the President's House submitted by "AZ," probably a pseudonym for Thomas Jefferson.
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Alexander R. Esty's design for the Library of Congress, ca. 1880.
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Design for National Galleries of History and Art by Franklin Webster Smith, 1900. The project would have stretched from 17th Street, near the White House, to the Potomac River.
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Plan for Paul Pelz for a new Executive Mansion on the site of Meridian Park.
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