027.573 Un3r £ j: |-p ' Records of the National B 'jilw! KQK^v^** r -X ‘ v.% • *+■ ,Js > Capital Planning Commission Inventory of Record Group 328 National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1977 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY URCAnA CHAMPAIGN ILL. HIST. SURVEY Records of the National Capital Planning Commission Inventory of Record Group 328 Compiled by Dorothy S. Provine National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration Washington: 1977 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data United States. National Archives and Records Service. Records of the National Capital Planning Commission. (National Archives and Records Service inventory series ; 12) 1. United States. National Capital Planning commis¬ sion—Archives. 2. United States. National Archives and Records Service. I. Provine, Dorothy S. II. Title. III. Series: United States. National Archives and Records Service. National Archives and Records Service inventory series ; 12. CD3022.A3 no. 12 [CD3027] 027.573s 77-13164 [016.3092'62'0973] Oil. 573 U Foreword ill, Stirv', The General Services Administration, through the National Archives and Records Service, is responsible for administering the permanently valuable noncurrent records of the Federal Government. These archival holdings, now amounting to more than 1 million cubic feet, date from the days of the First Continental Congress and consist of the basic records of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of our Government. The Presidential libraries of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson contain the papers of those Presidents and of many of their associates in office. 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RHOADS Archivist of the United States Contents Page Introduction. 1 General Records. 5 Land Acquisition Records. 10 Appendix Select List of Subject Headings in the Planning Files, 1924-67 . 13 vii Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign https://archive.org/details/recordsofnationaOOunit Introduction The direct predecessors of the National Capital Planning Commission were the National Capital Park Commission and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The National Capital Park Commission was established by an act of June 6, 1924 (43 Stat. 463), which provided for the comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital region. The seven-member Commission was composed of the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the Director of the National Park Service, the Chief of the Forest Service, the chairmen of the committees on the District of Columbia of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and the Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital. It was charged with providing “for a comprehensive, systematic, and continuous development of the park, parkway and playground system of the National Capital” and was authorized to acquire by purchase or condemnation lands in the District of Columbia and adjacent areas in Maryland and Virginia that were suitable for development of the National Capital park, parkway, and playground systems. The Park Commission Act was amended by an act of April 30, 1926 (44 Stat. 374), which changed the name of the Commission to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, increased its membership, and enlarged its responsibilities. The members of the Park Commission remained members of the new Commission, and the President was authorized to appoint in addition “four eminent citizens well qualified and experienced in city planning” who, after the original appointments, would serve for a term of 6 years. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission was vested with all the powers of its predecessor, the National Capital Park Commission, and was also charged with the “duty of preparing, developing, and maintaining a comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated plan for the National Capital and its environs.” The plan was to include recommendations concerning transportation and traffic; plats and subdivisions; highways, parks, and parkways; school and library locations; playgrounds; sewage, water supply, and drainage; housing, building, and zoning regulations; public and private buildings; bridges and waterfronts; commerce and industry; and “other proper elements of city and regional planning.” The act also abolished the Highway Commission and transferred its functions and duties (relating to the approval or revision of the recommendations of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for changes in the existing highway plan) to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The duties of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission were further expanded by an act of June 30, 1938 (52 Stat. 802), which provided that the location, height, and size of Federal buildings constructed in the District must be approved by the Commission. When Congress, in an act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 793), established the Redevelopment Land Agency to “further the redevelopment of blighted” sections of the District, the Commission was given the responsibility of adopting boundaries for urban renewal areas and preparing project redevelopment clans for submission to the Commissioners of the District for their approval. An act of July 19, 1952 (66 Stat. 781), established the National Capital Planning Commission as the successor agency to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the National Capital Park Commission, and the Highway Commission. The National Capital Planning Commission was “designated as the central planning agency for 2 INTRODUCTION the Federal and District Governments to plan the appropriate and orderly development and redevelopment of the National Capital and the conservation of the important natural and historical features thereof.” The Commission was composed of 12 members: 7 ex officio members (the Chief of Engineers of the Army, the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, the Director of the National Park Service, the Commissioner of Public Buildings, the Commissioner of Public Roads, and the chairmen of the committees on the District of Columbia of the Senate and of the House of Representatives) and 5 “eminent citizens well qualified and experienced in city or regional planning” appointed by the President. The Chairman of the Commission was named by the President. After the reorganization of the District government in 1967, the Commissioner of the District of Columbia (or mayor as he is informally called) replaced the Engineer Commissioner as an ex officio member of the Commission. The Commission inherited all the functions and powers of its predecessor agencies and was also charged with preparing a thoroughfare plan and mass transportation plan to be submitted to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for their approval, recommending a 6-year program of public works projects, making recommendations to the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia concerning amendments to zoning regulations, approving the location, height, and size of buildings erected by agencies of the District government within the “central area” of the Capital, and representing the Federal and District governments for cooperation with the Regional Planning Council. The National Capital Regional Planning Council, composed of representatives of the planning agencies of the region, was also established by the act of July 19, 1952 (66 Stat. 781). It was authorized to develop a regional plan of development for the entire metropolitan area (the District of Columbia, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland, and Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties and the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, and Fairfax in Virginia) and to serve as “a general framework” within which each section of the region might be more appropriately planned by the pertinent planning agency. The Regional Planning Council was subsequently abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1966. The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act of December 24, 1973 (PL 93-198), altered the membership of the Commission and its functions. The Commission is now composed of seven ex officio members (the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, the Commissioner of the District of Columbia (Mayor), the Chairman of the District of Columbia Council, and the chairmen of the committees on the District of Columbia of the Senate and of the House) and five “citizens with experience in city or regional planning.” Of the five citizen members, three are appointed by the President to 6-year terms and two by the Commissioner of the District for 4-year terms. The District elements of the Comprehensive Plan are prepared by the Commissioner of the District with the approval of the city council and are submitted to the Commission for its review and comments concerning the plan’s effects on the Federal interests. The Commission may reject those parts of the plan that have a “negative impact on the Federal Establishment in the National Capital.” The Commission remains responsible for developing the Federal elements of the Comprehensive Plan and for coordinating the District and the Federal elements into a “comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated plan.” The Commission also reviews and makes recommendations concerning plans by Federal and District agencies for developments and projects within the National Capital region. INTRODUCTION 3 The records described in this inventory are those of the National Capital Planning Commission that were in the National Archives of the United States as of September 1, 1977. The 286 cubic feet of documents are designated as Records of the National Capital Planning Commission, Record Group 328. There are closely related records in other record groups. Records of the Alley Dwelling Authority for the District of Columbia and its successor agency may be found in Records of the National Capital Housing Authority, Record Group 302. Records relating to land, public works, housing, urban renewal, transportation, and many other subjects are among Records of the Government of the District of Columbia, Record Group 351. There are records concerning public buildings, land, parks, statues, and monuments in the National Capital among Records of the Commission of Fine Arts, Record Group 66, and Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, Record Group 42. Other material relating to land, buildings, and monuments within the District of Columbia may be found in Records of the National Park Service, Record Group 79, Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, Record Group 48, and Records of the Public Buildings Service, Record Group 121. The entries for cartographic records were prepared by William J. Heynen and those for audiovisual records by Richard F. Myers. The editor is Annis K. Olsen. Chairman of the National Capital Park Commission Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor 1925 and 1926 Chairmen of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin Frederic A. Delano Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, III William W. Wurster Vacancy A. E. Demaray (acting) John A. Remon 1926 1926-29 1929-42 1942-49 1949 and 1950 1950 1951 1951-52 Chairmen of the National Capital Planning Commission Joseph D. Lohman Harland Bartholomew A. M. Woodruff Mrs. James H. Rowe. Jr. Philip G. Hammer Vacancy G. Franklin Edwards (acting) Ben Reifel William H. Press David M. Childs 1969 1970 1971 1953 1954-60 1961 1962-68 1972-73 1974 1975 General Records 1. TRANSCRIPTS OF PROCEEDINGS AND MIN¬ UTES OF MEETINGS. 1926-72. 35 ft. Arranged chronologically. Verbatim transcripts and/or summary accounts of meetings of the National Capital Planning Commis¬ sion and its predecessors, usually in either typescript or processed form. Frequently, copies of correspond¬ ence, reports, recommendations, and other pertinent material are grouped in an appendix or inserted loosely in the transcripts. There are minutes for only one meeting in 1926 and no minutes or transcripts for 1931-33, 1937, April 1943-October 1944, and January 1952-November 1954. There are other minor gaps. 2. SOUND RECORDINGS OF PROCEEDINGS. 1953. 12 items. Arranged chronologically. Recordings of proceedings of the Commission on January 30, March 20, April 24, and May 22, 1953. 3. MINUTES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL RE¬ GIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL. 1954-66. 2 ft. Arranged chronologically. Summary accounts, in processed form, of meet¬ ings of the Council. The Council, which was responsi¬ ble for comprehensive planning for the metropolitan region, considered such subjects as the industrial development of the area, the location of Federal installations, land use and conservation policies, regional parks and recreational facilities, the region’s transportation system, pollution of the Potomac River, and many other topics of regional concern. There are minor gaps in the records. 4. TRANSCRIPTS OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL. 1956-66. 4 ft. Arranged chronologically. A verbatim record of open and executive sessions and special meetings of the Council. Occasionally, pertinent resolutions, recommendations, correspond¬ ence, and other documents are inserted at appropriate places throughout the account. 5. MINUTES OF THE COORDINATING COMMIT¬ TEE OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION. 1932-47. 1 ft. Arranged chronologically. The National Capital Park and Planning Commis¬ sion (NCPPC) at its meeting on June 18, 1926, recommended that the City Planning Committee of the original Park Commission be continued as the “Coordinating Committee” of the NCPPC. The Com¬ mittee attempted to coordinate the work of different authorities whose jurisdictions were affected by the activities of the NCPPC, gave preliminary approval to projects that were to be submitted to the Com¬ mission, and made recommendations to the Commis¬ sion and the various offices represented on the Coordinating Committee concerning methods of cooperation and coordination of plans for the devel¬ opment of highways, streets, parks, sewers, and similar projects. Some issues, especially those involv¬ ing coordination of separate agencies, were disposed of by the Committee without reference to the Commission, in accordance with the general policies of the latter. Minutes are in processed form. There are a few gaps: minutes from 1926 to 1932 and from January to March 1947 are missing, as well as those for several other weekly meetings. 6. ADMINISTRATIVE FILES. 1924-67. 15 ft. Arranged in a numerical-subject classification using numbers 406 to 495 from a decimal scheme. Letters received and copies of letters sent, memorandums, narrative and statistical reports, copies of minutes, completed questionnaires, circu¬ lars, congressional bills, reports of hearings, articles, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and other records. There is material concerning the organization, func¬ tions, and procedures of the National Capital Plan¬ ning Commission and its predecessor agencies; budget estimates; meetings; committees of the Com¬ mission; employees; conferences, ceremonies; cele¬ brations; exhibits and expositions; and many other subjects. 5 6 NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 7. PLANNING FILES. 1924-67. 78 ft. Arranged in a numerical-subject classification using numbers 505 to 594 from the file scheme mentioned in entry 6. For a select list of subject headings, see the appendix. Correspondence, memorandums, reports, legis¬ lative material, petitions, completed questionnaires, photographs, newspaper clippings, published material, maps, and other records relating to city and regional planning and projects of the National Capital Plan¬ ning Commission and its predecessors. A broad range of subjects is covered: local and regional planning; legislation; memorials; parks and reservations; airfields; bridges; rivers and harbors; public and private buildings; housing and urban redevelopment; parking and traffic; playground and recreational facilities; public works; roads, highways, and mass transportation; zoning; and many other topics. There are a few items dated before 1924. 8. OFFICE FILES OF CHAIRMAN FREDERIC A. DELANO. 1926-42. 5 ft. Arranged in rough alphabetical order by subject. Files of Frederic A. Delano, member of the Commission, 1926-29, and Chairman, 1929-42, con¬ sisting of letters received and copies of letters sent, memorandums, reports, excerpts from minutes, maps, photographs, sketches, plans, newspaper clippings financial statements, articles, pamphlets, and other records. There are records concerning legislation, appropriations, appraisals, assessments, land pur¬ chases, housing, population, family income, reorgani¬ zation plans for the D.C. government, fiscal relations between the District and the Federal governments, airports, public buildings, statues, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Jefferson Memorial, flood control, pollution of the Potomac River, the Potomac Power Project, highways, parkways, traffic, parking, zoning, land use, regional and local planning, and other subjects. 9. OFFICE FILES OF DIRECTOR JOHN F. NOLEN, JR. 1926-58. 29 ft. Arranged in rough alphabetical order by subject. Letters received, copies of letters sent, memo¬ randums, narrative and statistical reports, telegrams, budget and cost estimates, minutes, circulars, infor¬ mal notes, survey reports, legal opinions, briefs, agreements, photographs, maps, plans, sketches, drawings, blueprints, plats, newspaper clippings, arti¬ cles, booklets, leaflets, addresses, and other records pertaining to all aspects of local and regional planning and to specific projects of the Commission. A variety of topics is covered: budgets, appropriations, ap¬ praisals, land purchases, local and regional planning, organization of the Commission, organization of the District government, land use, zoning, parking, traf¬ fic, population, income, housing, alley dwelling, slum clearance, redevelopment, public buildings, hospitals, highways, parkways, streets, parks, recreation centers, bridges, exhibits, memorials, drafts of chapters of the Comprehensive Plan of 1950, legislation, particular projects of the Commission, and many more subjects. 10. FILES OF JOHN F. NOLEN, JR., RELATING TO ZONING. 1936-58. 3 x h ft. Arranged roughly by subject (not alphabetized). Files relating primarily to a new zoning plan for the District of Columbia prepared by Harold M. Lewis, a planning consultant engaged by the District Zoning Advisory Committee. Included are drafts of Lewis’ proposals; six background studies prepared by Lewis on particular facets of zoning in the District; minutes, staff reports, memorandums, correspond¬ ence, and other material of the Zoning Advisory Committee regarding Lewis’ proposals; reports to the National Capital Planning Commission by its special committee established to study the revisions; state¬ ments made at public hearings on the proposals; galley proofs of the final report; and other records. There are also correspondence, statements, briefs, exhibits, maps, and other records relating to appeals before the Board of Zoning Adjustment, 1951-56; agenda with supporting documents (maps, plats, etc.) concerning individual cases before public hearings of the Board of Zoning Adjustment in 1949 and 1957; reports of the Zoning Advisory Council, 1954-57; a copy of proposed zoning regulations for Fairfax County, Va., in 1944; a copy of “The Report of a Survey of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia,’’ prepared by George D. Strayer in 1949; a folder of correspondence of Frederic A. Delano relating to the establishment of a memorial for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; and other miscel¬ laneous material. 11. FILES OF SECRETARY FRED G. COLDREN. 1926-32. VAft. Unarranged. Primarily processed copies of narrative reports and special studies relating to projects of the Com¬ mission but also financial statements, memorandums, correspondence, annual reports of the Commission, articles, excerpts from minutes, and other material. GENERAL RECORDS 7 The reports relate to parks, the major thoroughfare system, street plans, regional planning, problems of the central area, the Great Falls Power Project, neighborhood centers, zoning, and other subjects. Also included are a master index to laws relating to the District of Columbia, 1944, and copies of several addresses made by the Director of the Budget in 1940. 12. RECORDS RELATING TO URBAN RE¬ NEWAL. Ca. 1952-67. 11 ft. Arranged by subject (partially alphabetized). Correspondence, memorandums, narrative and statistical reports, feasibility studies, cost estimates, agreements, contracts, maps, published material, handwritten notes, and other records concerning urban renewal in the District and in other U.S. cities. There is material pertaining generally to the District’s “Community Renewal Program” and to specific local projects such as Adams-Morgan, Columbia Plaza, Northeast Area No. 1, Northwest Area No. 1, Southwest Area C, and Southwest Waterfront. There are also copies of minutes of the Urban Renewal Operations Committee and its subcommittees, 1958-64, and minutes and related documents of meetings of the District Commissioners’ Committee on Community Renewal, 1963-65, and of the District Commissioners’ Planning and Urban Renewal Advi¬ sory Council, 1964 and 1966. 13. RECORDS OF THE WASHINGTON CIVIL DIS¬ ORDER SURVEY. 1968-69. 15 ft. Records of a similar nature are grouped together. In May 1968 the District of Columbia, in collaboration with the National Capital Planning Commission and the Redevelopment Land Agency, undertook an “inquiry into the economic and social characteristics of privately and publicly owned real properties which sustained damage or loss” during the April 4-15, 1968, civil disturbance in the District. The major conclusions of the study were presented during hearings held May 27 and 28, 1969, before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations. These records are primarily lists of damaged properties and completed questionnaires giving names of owners and addresses of damaged properties, extent and type of damage, data on employees within damaged businesses, future plans of owners, and other information. There are also status and progress reports, tabulations, and a summary statement of the results of the survey. Some of the data gathered pertain to the period before 1968. 14. PROCESSED REPORTS AND OTHER MATE¬ RIAL. 1929-57. 13 ft. Arranged alphabetically by subject. Mainly processed reports but also policy state¬ ments, agreements, memorandums, maps, articles, minutes, press releases, announcements, congressional bills, and other records pertaining to projects of the Commission. 15. BACKGROUND MATERIAL, RESEARCH DATA, AND OTHER RECORDS PERTAINING TO STAFF REPORTS. 1926-48. 10 in. Arranged by subject (not alphabetized). Rough drafts of reports, memorandums, corre¬ spondence, agreements, questionnaires, newspaper clippings, minutes, research notes, articles, and other records relating to the plans and projects of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. These files were apparently accumulated as back¬ ground and research material for staff studies and reports by City Planners Charles W. Eliot, II, Max S. Wehrly, David A. Johnston, and Charles Herrick. Also included are some processed reports and studies produced by these planners. 16. HISTORICAL DATA FILES OF WILLIAM T. PARTRIDGE. 1933-49. 5 ft. Arranged roughly by subject (not alphabetized). William T. Partridge was a consulting architect to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Included in these files are correspondence, memoran¬ dums, processed reports, newspaper clippings, pub¬ lished articles and pamphlets, photographs, hand¬ written and typed research notes, drafts of lectures, and other materials pertaining mainly to the historical development of the National Capital and its architec¬ ture, art, and sculpture. Also in these files are drafts of a lecture to accompany a slide presentation on the development of Washington, D.C., prepared by Partridge for Clarence C. Zantzinger, a prominent Philadelphia architect and Chairman of the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on the National Capital; typed transcripts of letters of Pierre L’Enfant and copies of articles about him; handwritten and typed drafts of Partridge’s recollections of the McMillan Commission of 1901, whose architectural staff he headed; and other material. There are some records dated before 1933. 8 NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 17. LANTERN SLIDES SHOWING WASHINGTON, DC., AND ENVIRONS, ca. 1790-1950. Ca. 1900-50. 466 items. Arranged alphabetically by subject. A list of subject headings is available. These slides were used to illustrate reports and lectures on buildings, parks, and other projects and were available for reference by the Commission as a file of completed projects. They depict public and private buildings, memorials, the Mall area, park and river scenes, maps, plans, and graphs illustrating the development of the Capital from the 1790’s to the 1940’s, the Capital area’s park and recreational sys¬ tem, transportation, land for housing, zoning, demog¬ raphy, employment statistics, and regional planning for the Baltimore-Washington-Annapolis area. 18. ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS OF WATERFRONTS AND QUAYS. Ca. 1900. 54 items. Arranged numerically. The photographs in this album were used by the Commission as reference material in its development of projects for the Washington waterfront. Many were probably obtained from the Senate Park Commission, headed by Senator James McMillan, which took yearly trips to Europe to observe and study trends in planning and architecture. Waterfronts and quays por¬ trayed are in Paris, Angers, Bologna, Vannes, Gre¬ noble, Lyon, Budapest, Vienna, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Dusseldorf, Dresden, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Heidel¬ berg, Mainz, Munich, Venice, Naples, Syracuse (Italy), Seville, Petrograd, Stockholm, Lucerne, Bed¬ ford (England). London, Liverpool, Calcutta, and Rio de Janeiro. 19. PRINTS, GLASS POSITIVES, AND DRAWINGS RELATING TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUM¬ BIA AND ENVIRONS. Ca. 1902-40. 37 items. Arranged numerically. Pictures of the Capitol Building, the Supreme Court Building, the National Archives Building, the Mall, Meridian Hill Park, Rock Creek Park and Park¬ way, the National Zoological Park, the Potomac Canal, the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monu¬ ment, and Washington slums and alleys; drawings of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and the site of the Washington Monument; and a diagram showing sub¬ surface conditions of the Washington Monument in 1931. There are also a group portrait of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Edward White (1910-21), bearing autographs of the Justices, and a heraldic cartoon of the Senate Park Commission (McMillan Commission). 20. ALBUM OF PRINTS SHOWING THE CON¬ STRUCTION OF THE GRAND COULEE DAM. 1934-36. 20 items. Arranged numerically. A descriptive list of the items is available. The Commission was involved in plans for the utilization of Great Falls on the Potomac for hydro¬ electric power and in the Potomac Power Project. These display photographs, signed by K. S. Brown, are of the Grand Coulee Dam site in Washington State and of construction progress on the dam. They appar¬ ently were used by the Commission in its projections for Great Falls and the Potomac project. 21. PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS OF FLOOD SCENES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1936 and 1942. 48 items. The 1942 photographs are arranged chronologi¬ cally from 2:30 p.m. October 16 through 2 p.m. October 18. Among the Commission’s activities was the devel¬ opment of flood control programs. These photo¬ graphs illustrate the need for flood control plans and document the damage caused by the floods. One pic¬ ture depicts the 1936 flood; the remainder are 1942 photographs. They show the Potomac River and sur¬ rounding flooded banks and land, flooded streets and parks, especially areas along the C. & O. Canal and Rock Creek, sandbag dikes, a derailed train, by¬ standers watching the rising waters, and workmen trying to control the flooding river. For a description of aerial photographs showing flood conditions, see entries 26 and 27 22. NUMBERED MAPS AND PLANS (“OLD” FILE). Ca. 1901-61. Approx. 750 items. Arranged numerically according to an old or obsolete decimal scheme used by the National Capital Planning Commission before 1960. No explanation of the decimal classification scheme accompanies the records. A 5- by 8-inch card catalog serves as a finding aid. Maps and plans selected for historical preserva¬ tion by the Commission. The file contains maps created by the Commission as well as maps acquired from outside sources. The types of items are similar to those of the Commission’s “new” map and plan file renumbered during the early 1960’s and de¬ scribed separately. The records consist chiefly of GENERAL RECORDS 9 photoprocessed, blueprint, and printed maps and site plans, aerial photographic prints, sketches, and views, many annotated in color to show additional informa¬ tion. They include general maps of the District of Columbia and plans and proposals for Federal build¬ ings in the vicinity of the Mall and Capitol Hill, municipal and other public buildings and grounds, parks, streets, parking facilities, highway systems, military posts, bridges, and monuments. Most of the records are dated after 1930. A few scattered items contain information earlier than 1901, including a photocopy of an 18th-century plan of Alexandria, Va. (filed as 112.0-28), and a photocopy of a plan of the 1746 Howsing Grant in Fairfax County, Va. (Filed as 112.0-39). Notes on a few of the items relate to minutes of Commission meetings. Related cartographic records of the National Capital Parks are in Record Group 79; those of the Fine Arts Commission are in Record Group 66. 23. NUMBERED MAPS AND PLANS (“NEW” FILE). Ca. 1900-62. Approx. 750 items. Arranged numerically according to the new classification scheme devised by the National Capital Planning Commission in the early 1960’s. A 5- by 8-inch card catalog serves as a finding aid. Maps and plans selected for historical preserva¬ tion by the Commission. The file contains maps created by the Commission as well as maps acquired from outside sources. The types of items are similar to the maps and charts in the Commission’s “old” or decimal numerical file. The records consist chiefly of photoprocessed, blueprint, and printed maps and site plans, aerial photographic prints, sketches, and views, many annotated in color to show additional infor¬ mation. Among them are general maps of the District of Columbia and of parts of the District, and plans and proposals for Federal and municipal public buildings and grounds, parks, streets, parking facili¬ ties, highway systems, military posts, bridges, and monuments. Most of the records are dated after 1930. A few scattered items contain information earlier than 1900, including printed copies of the Andrew Ellicott map of the District of Columbia, 1792 (filed as 5.11/110-2853), and a blueprint copy of a plan of the National Zoological Park by Frederick Law Olmsted and Co., 1892 (filed as 2.00/5.20-1090). Notes on a few of the items relate to minutes of Commission meetings. Each of the maps and plans is stamped with a “New NCPC Number” added during the early 1960’s in conjunction with the Commission’s microfilming program. Each of the new numbers contains three subnumbers, as follows: the first (by which the records are primarily arranged) is a geographic sub¬ number that is keyed to a list of subareas and small planning regions within the District of Columbia (numbers 1.0 through 100.00), the National Capital region (1000), the Virginia suburbs (2000), the Maryland suburbs (3000), the Baltimore-Washington urban region (4000), and outside regions (5000); the second is a subject subnumber that is keyed to a list of subjects of interest to the Commission, such as zoning, streets, population, urban renewal, and historic buildings; and the third is a sequence number that is unique to the individual map. Copies of the geographic and subject number lists are maintained in conjunction with the records. Microfilm copies of these records mounted on aperture cards are available at the National Capital Planning Commission. Related cartographic records of the National Capital Parks are in Record Group 79, and those of the Fine Arts Commission are in Record Group 66. 24. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1927. 720 items. Arranged by photograph number. There is no finding aid. Vertical photographic prints (7 by 9 inches). Exact coverage is not known, but the large number of items suggests extensive coverage of the District. Scale of each photograph is 1 inch to approxi¬ mately 835 feet. 25. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PARKED- CAR SURVEY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUM¬ BIA. 1930. 95 items. Arranged by photograph number. An annotated index map accompanying the photographs serves as a finding aid. Vertical aerial photographic prints (7 by 9 inches) made for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission by the Office of the Chief of the Air Corps to show the number of parked automobiles along city streets at the height of the business day or approximately at noon. They cover the business section of the city bounded by the Potomac River and M Street on the south, 1st Street NE. and SE. on the east, Cathedral Avenue and Howard University on the North, and Rock Creek on the west. 10 NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION 26. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SHOWING FLOOD CONDI¬ TIONS. 1936. 75 items. Arranged by photograph number. A memo¬ randum accompanying the photographs describes the area covered by each flight line sequence. Aerial photographic prints, 7 by 9 inches (71 vertical and 4 oblique), showing flood conditions along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers on the morning of March 20, 1936. The photographs were taken for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission by the U.S. Army Air Corps. Scale is not indicated. For a description of photographic prints of flood scenes, see entry 21. 27. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SHOWING FLOOD CONDI¬ TIONS. 1942. 276 items. Arranged in four groups according to type and size, thereunder in part by photograph number and in part unnumbered and unarranged. There is no finding aid. Oblique and vertical aerial photographic prints made by the U.S. Army Air Corps. Most of the photographs cover areas of the city adjacent to the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. There are four groups: vertical photographs, 5 l h by 5)6 inches (30 items); oblique photographs, 7 by 7 inches (115 items); oblique “wing prints” or triangular-shaped photographs 16 inches long (65 items); and small oblique, low-altitude, short-range photographs, 4 by 5 inches (66 items). The 4- by 5-inch photographs taken at low altitude are the largest scale prints, showing individual buildings in detail, and they are the only ones bearing the date October 17, 1942, on the reverse sides. See entry 21 for a description of photographic prints of flood scenes. 28. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1950. 600 items. Arranged by photograph number and taped into strips according to the flight plan. Twelve photo indexes included with the records serve as a finding aid. Vertical photographs (10 by 10 inches) taken April 18, 1950, by the U.S. Air Force, and accom¬ panying photo indexes. Scale of the photographs is 1:24,000. 29. AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF LANGLEY- GREAT FALLS, VA. 1956. 33 items. Arranged by photograph number. Index diagrams accompany the photographs. Vertical photographic prints (9 by 9 inches) an¬ notated with colored lines. They may have been used in planning the George Washington Memorial Park¬ way in northern Virginia. Scale is 1 inch to 500 feet. 30. MISCELLANEOUS AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGEMENTS. N.d. and 1955. 2 items. Unarranged. A 22- by 26-inch oblique photograph of the Census Bureau, Suitland, Md. (undated, probably 1940’s), and a 40- by 40-inch vertical photograph of part of the District of Columbia and Arlington, Va., centered on Memorial Bridge, 1955. Land Acquisition Records 31. LAND ACQUISITION CASE FILES. 1924-61. 53 ft. Arranged in a numerical-subject classification using numbers 500-10 through 500-85 from the scheme mentioned in entry 6. Correspondence, memorandums, reports, finan¬ cial statements, agreements, affidavits, title certifi¬ cates, plats, photographs, surveyors’ computations, land purchase contracts, land transfer orders, copies of condemnation judgments, newspaper clippings, and other records relating to the acquisition of prop¬ erty for parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, and parkways. 32. DEEDS AND RELATED TITLE RECORDS CONCERNING LAND ACQUIRED IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 1927-57. 21 ft. Arranged by number of square or parcel. Deeds to property acquired for the Com¬ mission’s projects and supporting legal documents, such as certificates of title and certificates of taxes. There is also one folder pertaining to proposed legislation to carry out the recom¬ mendations of the report of the Maryland State Planning Commission on regional planning for the Baltimore-Washington-Annapolis area, 1938 and 1939. LAND ACQUISITION RECORDS 33. DEEDS AND RELATED TITLE RECORDS CONCERNING LAND ACQUIRED IN MARY¬ LAND. 1932-56. 10 in. Arranged alphabetically by name of owner. Deeds to property and supporting legal docu¬ ments. There is also an envelope of petitions favoring the location of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va. (1955). 34. APPRAISAL REPORTS. 1937-56. 4 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of project. Formal appraisal reports submitted by individual appraisers and certificates of appraisal from the Appraisal Committee of the Washington Real Estate Board. Photographs of improvements and plats are frequently included in the reports. There are also acknowledgments of title examination orders for 1938 and 1939. 35. OFFICE FILES OF THE LAND PURCHASING OFFICER. 1933-54. 3 ft. Arranged alphabetically by subject. 11 Correspondence, memorandums, informal notes, newspaper clippings, financial statements, appraisal reports, resolutions, proposals, estimates, reports, and other records relating to the general land acquisition program of the Commission. Among the subjects covered are budgets and appropriations for land purchases, legislation, appointments, status-of-funds reports, population, playgrounds, recreation centers, parks, offerings of land, public buildings, real estate costs, zoning, condemnations, appraisals, annual programs for land purchases, surveys, and other topics. 36. LAND ACQUISITION FILES OF THE LAND PURCHASING OFFICER. 1933-47. 13 ft. Arranged alphabetically by name of locality in the National Capital area. These files, which relate to the acquisition of specific parcels of land, contain appraisal reports; correspondence with landowners, their lawyers, or agents; memorandums; copies of land purchase con¬ tracts; plats; photographs; informal notes; and other records. ' Appendix Select List of Subject Headings in the Planning Files, 1924-67 (Entry 7) 505 LAWS AND LEGISLATION 505 505-10 505-25 505-25-5 505-50 505-95 Laws and legislation (general) Amendment to Land Transfer Act Classification and compensation of scientific and professional positions Committee on Legislation District of Columbia courts (procedures and decisions) Mass transportation National Capital Transportation Agency legislation Redevelopment legislation Administrative Procedures Act City Planning Enabling Act Regulations Day Maryland legislation Virginia legislation 520 MEMORIALS 520 Memorials (general) Artigas, General Jose Gervasio Bolivar, Simon, memorial (Bolivar, Mo.) Boy Scouts of America, memorial Braddock’s Rock Byrd, Rear Admiral Richard E., memorial Carillon Tower Civil War memorial (National Shrine Commission) Columbian Fountain Enterprise, U.S.S. Erickson, Leif, statue Gallatin, Albert, statue Gandhi, Mohandas K., memorial Gompers, Samuel, memorial Historical markers Holmes, Oliver Wendell, memorial Jefferson, Thomas, memorial Lee, Robert E., statue (Arlington National Cemetery) L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, memorial Madison, James, memorial and commission Marconi, Guglielmo, memorial Marine Corps, memorials proposed Marshall, John, memorial Mather, Stephen, memorial proposed Mellon, Andrew, memorial fountain 13 14 APPENDIX Metropolitan Police Department, memorial Mitchell, William, memorial proposed Nation, monument to the, proposed National Art Center National Capital Parks Memorial Board National Monument Commission National War Memorial Arts Commission, proposed establish¬ ment Parque America, proposed in South American capitals Peace bell and tower, proposed Peace memorial, proposed Rittenhouse, Sara Louisa, memorial Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, memorial proposed Roosevelt, Theodore, memorial Sousa, John Philip, memorial and auditorium proposed Straus, Oscar, memorial United States history in miniature Ward Circle Washington, George, memorial Wilson, Dr. J. Finley, memorial proposed Wilson, Woodrow, memorial proposed Zero Milestone (Jefferson Davis marker) 535 PARKS AND RESERVATIONS 535 Parks and reservations (general) Anacostia Park Battery Kemble Park Boundary Stones Brentwood Park Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Dumbarton Oaks Park East Potomac Park Fort Belvoir Fort Dupont Fort Foote Fort Myer Fort Totten Park Forts Mall Park, Parkway, and Playground Committee Parks and reservations, miscellaneous requests, complaints, and other matters Rock Creek Park, Olmsted Report Rock Creek Park, petition concerning bridge across at Upshur Street Rock Creek Park and Parkway Tidal Basin Tregaron (estate of Joseph E. Davies), proposed lease of by Communications Satellite Corporation Urban beautification West Potomac Park APPENDIX 15 535-5-10 535-25 535-30 535-50 535-55 West Potomac Park, polo field Parks and playgrounds, naming of District of Columbia Flowering plants Leases, permits, etc. Maryland parks (general) Cabin John Park Indian Creek Park Little Falls Branch Parkway Maryland Stream Valley parks Northwest Branch Park Oxon Run Park 535-55-10 535-80 Sugar Loaf Mountain Maryland parks, Civilian Conservation Corps program Trees (general) Trees, elm 535-80-50 535-90 Nurseries Virginia parks (general) Foundations 540 540-25 540-50 Photographs and pictures Films and slides Motion pictures 545 PLANNING 545 Planning (general) 545(B) 545(BB) Census of Housing “Metro—City of Tomorrow” (newspaper clipping) Planning, bibliography Potomac River Basin Advisory Committee Town Planning Institute’s American visit (1963-64) Workable program for community development Year-2000 Plan Federal employment center sites Ceir, Inc., agreement (relating to Federal employment location center study) 545(BBB) 545(BBBB) 545(C) 545-1 545-2 Open space (Year-2000 program) Open space bill Miller, John (consultant, long-range planning) Federal Planning and Project Committee Area Redevelopment Act Washington metropolitan area problems, joint committee on (Bible committee) 545-3 Alcoholic beverages 545-5 AVIATION FIELDS 545-5 Aviation fields (general) Anacostia-Bolling fields Andrews Field Bolling Field Postwar airport development Washington-Hoover Airport 16 APPENDIX Washington National Airport 545-5-10 Airport Committee 545-5-50 Public Utilities Committee, report on a municipal airport for the District of Columbia 545-7 Helicopters and heliports 545-8 BRIDGES 545-8 Bridges (general) Alexandria Bridge across the Potomac Anacostia River bridges Aqueduct Bridge Arizona Avenue Bridge Arlington Memorial Bridge Cabin John Bridge Calvert Street Bridge Chain Bridge Fourteenth Street Bridge Great Falls Bridge K Street Viaduct Massachusetts Avenue Bridge Potomac River crossings (general) Modjeski, Masters, and Reid, “Report on Potomac River Bridges” (1952) Railroad bridges Singstad report, “Improved Traffic Facilities Across the Potomac River . . . and Defense Emergency Railroad Con¬ nections” (1941) Smith and Associates, contract Smith and Associates, “Report on Traffic Volumes and Capacity Requirements for Potomac River Bridges and Inner Loop Traffic” (1955) Smith and Associates, “Toll Financing of Potomac River Crossings” (1955) Sousa Bridge South Capitol Street Bridge Sverdrup and Parcel, “Report on Proposed Revisions of Potomac River Crossings for Defense Emergency” (1941) 545-9 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 545-9 545-9-2 545-9-5 545-9-10 545-9-10(a) 545-9-20 545-9-25 545-9-30 545-10 Comprehensive Plan (general) Publicity Plans, maps, etc. Memorandums Work program directive for Hodges’ Comprehensive Plan Division Citizens’ Advisory Committee Citizens’ Advisory Council on the Comprehensive Plan Progress reports General Gordon R. Young’s 6-Year Plan for Post-War Washing¬ ton (1946) APPENDIX 17 545-15 BUILDINGS 545-15 Buildings (general) 545-15-2 545-15-5 545-15-15 545-15-15-50 545-15-20 545-15-20-20 545-15-25 545-15-30 Landmark preservation National Armed Forces Museum Building permits and building codes Apartment houses and hotels Building lines Projections beyond the building line Business and office buildings Gasoline stations, garages, etc. National Capital Garden Club Churches 545-15-35 545-15-50 Cathedral (Washington Cathedral) National Presbyterian Church, preservation of Dwellings George Washington Headquarters (Old Stone House, George¬ town) Historical 545-15-55 SPECIFIC BUILDINGS 545-15-55 American Pharmaceutical Association 545-15-70 Children’s Museum Conservatory of Music Folger Museum Historic Annapolis Institutional Masonic Temple (Square 2534) Musical Museum National Collection of Fine Arts Museum National Gallery of Art. See also 545-15-80, National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian Institution, Gallery of Art National Museum of Engineering and Industry Federal buildings projects 545-15-80 PUBLIC BUILDINGS 545-15-80 Public buildings (general) Agriculture Department buildings Air Force Headquarters Building Air Museum Air Rights Building Apex Building Archives Building Arlington Hall Station Armory Army Map Service Building No. 1 Army Medical Museum Army and Navy Club Auditorium Commission 18 APPENDIX Auditorium (Atlantic City, NJ.) Auditorium (Cleveland, Ohio) Auditorium (Kansas City, Mo.) Auditorium (Philadelphia, Pa.) Bureau of Engraving and Printing Bureau of Public Roads buildings Cafeteria and training facility, National Capital Regional Office Building (East Potomac Park) Cameron Station (Alexandria, Va.) Capitol Census Bureau Building Central Heating Plant Central Intelligence Agency Central Library Chalk Center Child Health Research Facility Coast Guard Building Comfort stations Community Health Center Congressional Library Congressional Library Annex Congressional Shopping Center Court of Claims Building District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Building Eastern Market Federal Bureau of Investigation Federal court buildings Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Office Building No. 5 Federal Office Building No. 7 Federal office buildings Federal Reserve Board Annex Federal Reserve Board Building Federal Records Center and Central Heating Plant Fire Alarm Headquarters Building (McMillan Park) Fire stations Food and Drug Administration Foreign Service Institute General Accounting Office Building General Federal Office Building No. 2 Geological Survey Georgetown Market Goddard Space Center Government Printing Office Hall of Fame Health Center, central area Homeowners’ Loan Corporation House Office Building Housing and Home Finance Building Housing and Urban Development Information Agency Interior Department Building APPENDIX 19 Lincoln Place Matomic Building Morgue Municipal Center National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Art Museum of Sport National Capital Development Authority National Capital Regional Office Building National Gallery of Art. See also Smithsonian Institution, Gallery of Art, and 545-15-55, National Gallery of Art National Industrial Exposition and Transportation Center National Museum Naval Station Navy Department Building. See also War Department and Navy Department Building Navy Department, munitions and other temporary buildings Navy Department and Navy Museum, report on berthing of historic ships near proposed buildings New Methodist Building (Ward Circle) New War Department Building (Arlington County). See also War Department and Navy Department Building New War Department Building (District of Columbia) Northwest garage (9th & 0, NW.) Operations and Academic Building, Defense Intelligence Agency (Arlington, Va.) Pan American Building and Annex Pan American Health Organization Headquarters Patent Office Pension Office Planetarium and Space Center Post Office Building Public Employment Center Public Health Center Quartermaster Depot site Railroad Retirement Board Recorder of Deeds Building Senate Office Building Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, Gallery of Art. See also National Gallery of Art and 545-15-55, National Gallery of Art. Social Security Board Southeast Neighborhood House Stadium State Department, expansion Suitland Federal Employment Center Supreme Court Building Tax Court Building Temporary buildings in parks Theaters Treasury Department Annex Triangle buildings Union Station 20 APPENDIX 545-15-85 Veterans’ Bureau Walker-Johnson Building War Department and Navy Department Building. See also Navy Department Building and New War Department Building. Warehouses Water Resources Educational Building Wax Museum Weather Bureau West Central Heating Plant Western Market White House, restoration of Dispersal of public buildings Security for public buildings 545-20 Arlington National Cemetery Harmony cemeteries 545-22 Civil works projects 545-25 COMMITTEES, ASSOCIATIONS, ETC. 545-25 Coordinating Committee 545-2545 545-25-55 545-25-55-25 545-25-60 545-25-65 545-25-68 545-25-70 545-25-71 545-25-75 545-25-85 545-26 545-27 National Capital Downtown Committee National Transportation Coordinating Committee, meetings Relocation Advisory Committee Coordinating Committee, meetings Personnel Coordinating Committee Counsel Other Washington committees Citizens’ Advisory Council on Central Area Study Federation of Citizens’ Associations Professional Committee of the National Capital Committee of 100 on the Federal City Federal City Council Health and Welfare Council of the National Capital Area, Inc. Coordination Air raid protection District of Columbia Council of Defense 545-28 545-29 Easements Flood control (general) Flood control, Bladensburg Flood control, Watts Run 545-30 CIRCLES, PLAZAS, INTERSECTIONS, UNDERPASSES, RESERVATIONS, ETC. 545-30 Barney Circle Buzzards Point Central Area Capitol, Committee on Extension Capitol grounds Chevy Chase Circle Connecticut Avenue and Calvert Street APPENDIX 21 545-35 545-36 545-38 Constitution Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue intersection Dupont Circle Underpass Federal Triangle Fifteenth and H Streets, NE. Focal points and sections of the city Fourteenth and Maine Streets, grade separation Georgetown Georgetown waterfront Georgia Avenue and Iowa Avenue, NW. Georgia Avenue Portal International Plaza on the Potomac Judiciary Square K Street Key Bridge Terminal Lafayette Square Lincoln Park Marshall Heights Montgomery Blair Portal Ninth Street Northeast Washington Northwest Rectangle Northwest Triangle Northwest Washington Observatory Circle Pantheon Pennsylvania Avenue, north side of Plaza south of the Interior Department Building Plazas, squares, circles, etc. Portals Potomac Park approach to Washington Rhode Island Avenue Portal River park cooperation Roosevelt Island Scott Circle Sixteenth Street, NW. South Capitol Street Southeast Washington Southwest building area Southwest Washington States’ buildings and Avenue of States Thomas Circle Underpass Underpasses Union Station Plaza Ward Circle Watergate West End Wisconsin Avenue Portal Forests, national and State Forts, Civil War, preservation of Gardens (general) American Rosarium Municipal rose garden 22 APPENDIX 545-41 Victory (community) gardens Gatehouses, Bullfinch 545-45 HOUSING 545-45 Housing (general) 545-45-5 545 - 45 . 5 .IO 545-45-10 Housing, Maryland Housing, Virginia National Housing Agency Parkside Dwelling Project Washington Building Congress, Post-War Planning Committee Housing, veterans’ Commission’s Emergency Committee on Housing Alley Dwelling Authority, agenda, minutes, correspondence, and other records 54545-10-5 National Capital Housing Authority, agenda, minutes, corre¬ spondence, and other records National Capital Housing Authority (general) National Capital Housing Authority, draft of annual report of fiscal year 1958 545-45-10-5(a) 545-45-10-6 National Capital Housing Authority, working file William Zeckendorf, transcript of remarks made at the 545-45-10-10 545-45-10-15 545-45-20 Washington Housing Association annual meeting of 1957 Committee on Aliev Dwellings Committee on Public Housing Sites Rent control 545-45-25 URBAN REDEVELOPMENT 545-45-25 Urban redevelopment (general) 545-45-25-1 545-45-25-2 Urban redevelopment, amendments Community Renewal Program Urban renewal 545-45-25-2(a) 545-45-25-2(b) 545-45-25-2(c) 545-45-25-2(d) 545-45-25-2(e) 545-45-25-3 545-45-25-4 Rouse-Keith Report, “No Slums in 10 Years” Provisions of housing codes in various American cities San Francisco redevelopment Foggy Bottom urban renewal George Washington urban renewal project Columbia Plaza Watergate Urban Renewal and Housing Committee Urban Renewal Council Urban renewal legislation Urban Renewal Operations Committee 545-45-25-5 Northeast urban renewal project Yardville, U.S.A., redevelopment 545-45-25-7 545-45-25-10 545-45-25-15 545-45-25-15-4 545-45-25-15-5 Adams-Morgan project Southeast redevelopment program Southwest redevelopment program Special Committee on Redevelopment Procedure Funds for services (Bartholomew) APPENDIX 23 545-45-30 Barry Farms District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency 545-45-30-5 545-45-30-10 545-45-32 545-45-34 545-45-35 545.45.37 545-48 545-48-10 545-48-50 Request for transfer of funds, Redevelopment Land Agency Relations with National Capital Housing Authority Coordinating Committee on Housing and Redevelopment Slum Prevention and Rehabilitation Committee Survey of income in the District of Columbia Housing code enforcement Industrial redevelopment area Abattoirs Oil plants 545-55 SITES FOR EXPANSION AND BUILDINGS 545-55 Agricultural Research Center (Beltsville, Md.) 545-55-5 545-60 American Heritage Center Arlington Farm Army War College Atomic Energy Commission Bureau of Standards Environmental Health Center Gallinger Hospital Garfield Hospital Georgetown Hospital Home for the Aged Hospitals Howard University and Freedmens Hospital Mount Alto Hospital National Academy of the American Theater National Air Museum National Arboretum National Institutes of Health Naval Hospital Naval Museum Naval Observatory Naval Ordnance Laboratory Naval Research Laboratory Naval Security Station Naval Weapons Plant (formerly Navy Yard) Navy Experimental Basin Navy Photointelligence Center Planetarium Providence Hospital Rifle Range, District of Columbia National Guard Saint Elizabeths Hospital Sibley Hospital site (old) Soldiers’ Home Tuberculosis Hospital Veterans’ hospitals Walter Reed Hospital Case Resolution Land and its uses (population studies) 24 APPENDIX 545-60-5 Land use survey (Works Progress Administration project) 545-65 545-65-5 545-65-10 545-68 545-70 545-70-50 Libraries Capitol View Branch Library Old Tenley Library site Marginal camps Markets Market propaganda 545-72 MOTOR VEHICLES (PARKING, HOUSING, ETC.) 545-72 Motor vehicles (general) 545-72(a) 545-72-3 545-72-4 545-72-5 Department of Health, Education, and Welfare parking study Used-car lots in the District of Columbia Federal employee parking District of Columbia Advisory Board, American Automobile Association 545-72-50 545-72-50-5 545-72-55 545-72-60 Parking study of 1930 Forms, bills, and distribution of reports Joint Committee on Parking District of Columbia Commissioners’ Special Committee on Parking 545-75 545-77 545-80 National Planning Commission Nuisances, abatement of Planning, other localities (general). See also 545-95, Regional planning Chesapeake Bay Military posts Rockville, Md. 545-84 Park and shop stores 545-85 PLAYGROUNDS AND RECREATION 545-85 Playgrounds and recreation (general) 545-85-1 545-85-2 545-85-3 Brightwood Recreation Center Columbia Heights Recreation Center Ice skating Langston Recreation Center Nichols and Chesapeake Streets, SW., proposed park and playground Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Committee Recreation-playground survey Thirty-sixth and Yuma Streets, NW., park and playground Western Recreation Center Employees’ recreation and social center Assignment of playgrounds Recreation Board, minutes Unified recreation system (general) Unified recreation system, Pangborn Report of 1941 545-85-5 545-85-10 545-85-12 545-85-13 Committee on Coordination of Recreation Plans Administrative Committee National Recreation Association Washington Council of Social Agencies APPENDIX 25 545-85-13-5 United Community Service 545-85-14 545-85-15 545-85-50 545-85-60 Camping facilities Chicago, Ill., small parks report Maryland and Virginia playgrounds Golf courses 545-85-75 545-85-76 545-85-77 545-85-78 545-85-79 545-86 545-86-70 545-87 545-87-5 Skating rinks Swimming pools Welfare—Government employees and servicemen Recreation and Hospital Committee Police Boys’ Clubs Washington social survey Police and fire protection Park Police pistol range Population studies Employment data 545-88 PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM 545-88 Public works program (general) 545-88-6 545-88-8 Capital improvement program (National Capital Parks) Special Committee on District of Columbia Public Works Program 545-88-10 545-88-15 545-88-20 545-88-30 545-88-30-50 545-88-50 545-88-70 545-89 545-90 Advance plan of public works Community planning facilities Postwar planning Defense public works Vital Area Board Inventory of works projects, District of Columbia (1935) Public Works of Art Project Race discrimination and segregation Radio activities (towers, masts, etc.) Radio range on Mount Vernon Boulevard Radio station, Fort Belvoir 545-90-5 545-90-10 545-91 545-92 Television towers Broadcasts, television and radio Railroads Refuse disposal 545-95 REGIONAL PLANNING 545-95 Regional planning (general). See also 545-80, Planning, other 545-95-25 localities Cooperation with Maryland (general) Montgomery County Prince Georges County 545-95-25-3 545-95-25-5 545-95-25-10 545-95-50 Baltimore-Washington region Baltimore Commission on City Plan Upper Montgomery County Planning Commission Cooperation with Virginia (general) Alexandria Plan Arlington County Plan Fairfax County 26 545-95-70 545-96 Fairfax County Park Authority Northern Virginia Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority Washington Regional Planning Council Protection of Potomac River values. See also 545-98-52, Potomac River, propaganda 545-98 RIVERS AND HARBORS 545-98 Rivers and harbors (general) 545-98-5 Anacostia River, flood control 545-98-10 545-98-12 545-98-15 545-98-45 545-98-50 Anacostia River, hearing on river and flats Channels, dredging, etc. Boundary Channel Harbor regulations Open valley treatment of streams Patuxent River 545-98-52 Potomac River (general) Potomac River, propaganda. See also 545-96, Protection of Potomac River values 545-98-60 Rock Creek and tributaries 545-98-75 Washington Channel waterfront Waterfront development 545-98-76 Potomac River waterfront, Virginia 545-98-76-3 Alexandria, Va., waterfront 545-100 ROADS, STREETS, FREEWAYS, ETC. 545-100 Freeways (general) Roads and streets (general) Anacostia Freeway Arizona Avenue Freeway Atlantic Coastal Highway Baltimore-Washington-Annapolis Area Report Baltimore-Washington Parkway Conduit Road Constitution Avenue East Capitol Street Eastern, Western, and Southern Avenues Fort Drive George Washington Memorial Parkway Glover-Archbold Parkway Independence Avenue Indian Head Highway John Marshall Highway Lee Boulevard Massachusetts Avenue Mount Vernon Highway Northeast Expressway Northwest Freeway Potomac Freeway Route 266 APPENDIX 27 545-100/1-44 545-100-15 545-100-15-15 545-100-17 545-100-18 545-100-19 545-100-20 Southeast Freeway Southwest Freeway Special streets Suitland Parkway Third Beltway prospectus Washington-Jersey City Highway-Parkway Watts Branch Parkway Whitehaven Parkway Streets and sidewalks Street closings General street closing bill Design of streets Alleys Sidewalks Easing of curbs 545-100-45 HIGHWAY PLAN 545-100-45 Highway Plan (general) 545-100-45-25 545-100-45-75 Inner Loop Specific local changes to Highway Plan Capital Beltway E Street Expressway or Mall Virginia Avenue improvements 545-100-50 545-100-55 545-100-60 545-100-60-5 545-100-60-6 545-100-62 Roadside improvement Lighting Major thoroughfare plan Highway Plan survey of 1941 Highway Plan report of 1952 Maryland roads Route 240 or S. 70 545-100-62-5 545-100-62-8 545-100-63 545-100-70 545-100-70-10 545-100-70-20 545-100-70-50 545-100-76 545-100-80 545-100-80-5 Petitions regarding Route 240 Rock Creek Parkway, progress reports Naming of roads and streets Paving Closing streets Street orders, District of Columbia Highway Division Permits, District of Columbia Department of Highways Opening, widening, etc., of streets Regional Highway Plan Regional Highway Planning Committee Regional Thoroughfare Committee, Virginia 545-100-80-6 545-100-95 545-100-95-5 Regional Thoroughfare Committee, Maryland Virginia roads Columbia Island Plaza 545-103 SCHOOLS 545-103 Schools (general) Abbot Vocational School Gallaudet College 28 APPENDIX 545-105 SEWERS 545-105 Sewers (general) 545-105-10 545-105-15 545-105-20 545-105-20-25 545-105-20-35 545-105-50 545-108 545-110 Dulles interceptor sewer Committee on Regional Sewage Chesapeake Bay Drainage Committee Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, newsletter Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Committee Northern Virginia Metropolitan Sanitary District Signs, wayside stands, etc. Smoke 545-114 SUBDIVISIONS 545-114 Subdivisions and subdividing (general) 545-114-50 545-114-95 Georgetown-Canal-Riverside area Maryland subdivisions Virginia subdivisions 545-115 SURVEYS 545-115 Surveys (general) 545-115-5 545-115-10 545-115-20 National Park Service survey reports Topographic survey of Washington and environs Origin and destination survey 545-118 TRAFFIC 545-118 Traffic (general) 545-118-50 Traffic Advisory Council Traffic Newsletter 545-118-50-10 545-118-50-15 Traffic safety Metropolitan Traffic Conference 545-119 MASS TRANSPORTATION 545-119 Mass transportation (general) Bartholomew & Associates preliminary transit report (1927) Bartholomew & Associates report of 1952 National Capital Transportation Agency Traffic statistics 545-119-2 545-119-2(a) Tri-State Commission on Mass Transit Tri-State Commission on Mass Transit, minutes 545-119-5 MASS TRANSPORTATION SURVEY 545-119-5 Mass Transportation Survey (general) Basic freeway plan General development plan Lowdon Wingo statement of May 5, 1959, concerning the Mass Transportation Survey APPENDIX 29 545-119-6 545-119-7 545-119-10 545-119-10-5 545-119-12 545-119-12-5 545-119-12-10 545-119-12-15 545-119-12-20 545-119-15 545-119-15(a) 545-119-20 545-119-25 545-119-50 545-119-75 545-119-80 545-119-80-2 545-119-90 545-119-91 545-120-5 545-120-10 545-120-20 545-120-20-5 545-120-20-10 545-120-20-15 545-120-20-20 545-125 545-130 545-135 ZONING 545-135 545-135(a) 545-135-2 Transcript of proceedings of executive session of the Com¬ mission (January 31, 1957) National census on transportation (1963) Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission Consultants, Mass Transportation Survey (general) Adams, Howard, and Greeley contract Alper contract and report Blanche, Ernest E., and Associates Council for Economic Industry Research, Inc., contract Deleuw, Cather & Co., Engineers Gulick contract (Institute of Public Administration) Joint Commission to Study Carrier Facilities and Services in the Washington Metropolitan Area, interim report (1956) Sexton contract Smith, Wilbur, contract Taylor, Jackson H. Contracts, Mass Transportation Survey Steering Committee for the Mass Transportation Survey Steering Committee, minutes Economic Base Study for the General Development Plan, National Capital Region Parking survey Public roads agreement Bus terminal Federal City Center Federal City Terminal Committee Thoroughfare plan Electric lines, interurban Public Utilities Commission orders Staggered hours Streetcar and bus facilities Plow pits Gateway study Employees’ transportation survey (1934) Electric service Gas service Water supply Washington Region Water Supply Committee Joint Committee on Water Supply and Sewage Disposal Joint Committee on Water Supply and Sewage Disposal, minutes Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission Walks Wildlife Zoning (general) Zoning Committee General revisions of the Zoning Regulations Reports relating to general revisions of the Zoning Regulations 30 APPENDIX 545-135-2-3 545-135-2-4 545-135-2-5 545-135-2-10 545-135-5 545-135-10 545-135-10-15 545-135-15 545-135-15-5 545-135-15-6 545-135-15-7 545-135-15-9 545-135-15-10 545-135-15-10(a) 545-135-20 545-135-25 545-135-25-5 545-135-25-10 545-135-50 545-135-50-5 545-135-50-5(a) 545-135-50-10 545-135-50-15 545-135-75 550 550-5 District of Columbia Commissioners’ Zoning Advisory Com¬ mittee Commission’s Committee on Zoning Revision Zoning Regulations’ amendments Zoning ordinances Zoning Commission Architectural control Gasoline pumps, Naval Security Station Board of Zoning Adjustment (general) Board of Zoning Adjustment, minutes Board of Zoning Adjustment, notices • Board of Zoning Adjustment, orders Board of Zoning Adjustment, annual reports Zoning appeals: gasoline stations, garages, etc. Zoning litigation Zoning Advisory Council Maryland zoning Montgomery County zoning Prince Georges County zoning Virginia zoning Alexandria zoning Zoning and development of Washington Street, Alexandria Arlington County zoning Fairfax County zoning Specific local changes Plans, drawings, and maps L’Enfant Plan 560 PUBLICATIONS 560 560-10 560-10-15 560-10-20 560-10-22 560-10-25 560-10-75 560-10-100 560-10-178 560-10-190 560-50 Publications (general) Books and pamphlets American Institute of Architects volume Development of the United States Capital and Its Environs Quotations concerning the National Capital (compilation by Horace W. Peaslee) Federal Register Government manual Miscellaneous Rutherford, Geddes W., dissertation and book by Work of the National Capital Planning Commission Magazines 565 PUBLICITY 565 565-25 565-50 570 572 Publicity (general) Public relations Press releases Records and files Relics and trophies APPENDIX 31 575 REPORTS 575 593 594 Reports (general) District of Columbia monthly reports Herrick, Charles M., report concerning the relationship of zoning to Federal guaranteed mortgage loans and other matters Herrick, Charles M., report on the relationship of density of population to death rates and health Howard report on reorganization of the Commission McMillan Commission, history and background Memorandums of actions taken at Commission meetings National Capital Parks, reports Regional Plan Taxation and assessments Field trips Visits to National Capital Planning Commission and to Washington . UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA 027.573UN3R C001 RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING 025254696 National Archives and Records Service Ik. General Services Administration