1 10 5 https://mallhistory.org/files/original/e883750b71b3cf1a12e14b2da40b1e6f.jpg cbf4062d7f2cf1a9c7038da6738888fe Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Design Plan Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mills' Proposed Plan of the Mall Description An account of the resource In 1840, Secretary of War Joel Poinsett commissioned <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/114">Robert Mills</a> to create a plan for the recently <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/162">proposed Smithsonian Institution's building</a> and the grounds from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">Capitol</a> to the future site of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>. Mills broke the Mall into sections, with formal botanical gardens near the Smithsonian Building, which he set on the north side of the Mall. The area near the Washington Monument was meant to evoke the wilderness, with numerous trees and curving pathways. Only a portion of the plan, the landscaping for the Smithsonian grounds, was ever developed. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Mills Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived National Archives at College Park. <a href="http://research.archives.gov/description/6087995">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1841 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1830-1859 design & monuments environment ghost mall https://mallhistory.org/files/original/3cea7608c3ee3fb82b1259dc778c5873.jpg 22bc7003da575bc60eed482d502f5370 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Construction of Treasury Building, Washington, D.C. With oxen in foreground on south side Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96524469/ Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 5/4/1860 Place Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.) Physical Description Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall. The building is five stories high and covers five acres of ground. There is a statue of Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary of the Treasury, located on the south, patio facing the Mall. On the north patio is a statue of Albert Gallatin, fourth Secretary of the Treasury and the person who served in that position for the longest period, from 1801 to 1814. Type The nature or genre of the resource Government Offices Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Treasury Department Description An account of the resource The Treasury Department is one of the oldest government departments. It was among those established when the federal government moved to Washington in 1800. The first Treasury Department building was damaged by fire in 1801 and <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/157">completely destroyed by the British in 1814, during the War of 1812</a>. A second building was destroyed by fire set by arsonists in 1833. In 1836, Congress authorized the construction of a new, fireproof building, which was finished by 1842. Additional wings to the south, north, and west were added in between 1855 and 1869, completing the building we see today. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Mills Thomas Ustick Walter Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96524469/">View original</a>. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1800 (established) 1836 (current building construction begins) 1869 (current building construction complete) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1800-1829 1830-1859 1860-1889 neighborhood work & play https://mallhistory.org/files/original/5a0d1950481a435f40d653e2005684bf.jpg 64065a58b9652d9a200ec5e06d6568cc Still Image A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials. Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Architectural Drawing Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Original Design of the Washington Monument Description An account of the resource This original, lavish design of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument </a>was created by <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/114">Robert Mills</a>, who won a national design competition in 1836 sponsored by the<a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/148"> Washington National Monument Society</a>. The Society relied on public funds for construction. Shortly after construction began in 1854 they were forced to stop when money ran out. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/281">In 1876 Congress took over the construction of the monument</a>, choosing to construct a <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/455">simple obelisk</a> instead of Mills' original design. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Mills Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006678338/">View original</a>. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1830-1859 design & monuments ghost mall https://mallhistory.org/files/original/a734091fa81dbdd4ce9f80b37245b5dd.jpg 0398ff04648b97fd27be1cbdedd02f4a People An individual, biographical data, birth and death, etc. Birth Date 08/12/1781 Birthplace Charleston, South Carolina Death Date 03/03/1855 Occupation Architect Biographical Text Robert Mills, one of the first American architects, was born in Charleston, South Carolina at the tail end of the American Revolutionary War. In 1800, he began working with <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/108">James Hoban</a>, architect for the first White House in Washington, DC. During this initial visit to Washington, Mills likely met then-President <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/301">Thomas Jefferson</a>, who was also an amateur architecture. By 1804, Mills had moved to Philadelphia, one of the largest cities in the nation, where he worked for and studied under <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/80">Benjamin Henry Latrobe.</a> In 1808, he married Eliza Barnwell Smith, with whom he had eight children. One of his first architectural designs was an 1807 proposal for a state penitentiary for South Carolina, sent in response to a call for proposals. Although his design was not selected, he was able to scale it down and implement in as a jail in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Over the next seven years, Mills designed a number of jails, row houses, state office buildings, and even a museum in the Philadelphia area. In 1814, Mills moved to Washington, DC, possibly because he was receiving more commissions in the region. He designed the Baltimore Washington Monument, the first in the nation to be completed. In 1820, he returned to South Carolina, where he worked designing buildings for the state as well as helping with railroad development. He continued to work on institutional design like jails and insane asylums, trying to find ways that the architecture could aid the inmates’ return to society. By the mid 1830s, Mills was back in Washington, working on buildings for the Federal Government, including the Patent Office Building and the General Post Office. When the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/148">Washington National Monument Society</a> announced a design contest for the memorial in 1836, Mills was among those who entered. His design, which originally included a series of columns around the obelisk, won the competition. He died in 1855, only a year after construction halted on the monument due to lack of funds. First Name for nav purposes Robert Last Name for nav purposes Mills Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert Mills Description An account of the resource Robert Mills, an architect from South Carolina, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/280">won the competition to design the Washington Monument</a> in 1836. Although construction began under his supervision, work stopped in 1854, a year before he died, and the monument was not completed for another thirty years. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/355">Mills was also the architect of other prominent Washington buildings</a>, including the central and eastern wings of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/337">Treasury Department building</a>. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005693087/">View original image</a>. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1830-1859 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Mills building the mall design & monuments https://mallhistory.org/files/original/e89429976366c18064acb3940b3049a9.jpg fb2dfb03aa9cf1d8d5f23c9a5eff949a Omeka Image File The metadata element set that was included in the `files_images` table in previous versions of Omeka. These elements are common to all image files. Width 573 Height 800 Bit Depth 8 Channels 1 Place Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.) Physical Description Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall. Obelisk, 555 feet tall. Made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss. Location The location of the interview. 38°53′22.08377″N 77°2′6.86378″W Type The nature or genre of the resource Monuments Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Washington Monument Description An account of the resource The Washington Monument is the only actual monument on the National Mall because Washington was alive when it <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/280">began to be planned</a>. All others on the Mall are memorials, created after the person being remembered has died. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/196">Begun in 1848,</a> construction of the monument was <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/148">interrupted in 1854</a>. Political and social events deferred construction <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/281">until 1877</a>, and the monument was finally <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/282">completed in 1884</a>. The <a href="http://mallhistory.org/explorations/show/washington-monument-colors">line approximately a third of the way up the monument </a>shows where construction was halted. <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/265">A 2011 earthquake damaged the monument.</a>, closing it for repairs. The National Park Service reopened the monument in 2014, but issues with the elevator and electrical system forced another closure in August 2016. The landmark is expected to reopen in spring 2019. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Robert Mills Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005691173/resource/">View Original.</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1848 (Construction Began) 1884 (Completed) 2011 (Damaged) Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1830-1859 1860-1889 presidents