Overview
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.
- | Author: Rebecca Boggs Roberts
- | Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
- | Publication Date: May 14, 2012
- | Number of Pages: 130 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1531662285
- | ISBN-13: 9781531662288
