Modern Federal · Railroad stations

Louis St. Gaudens's allegorical Archimedes statue, representing the gift of mechanics, one of six on the parapet above the entrance to Washington D.C.'s Union Station

Washington (d.c.), District Of Columbia · 1850–1939

Louis St. Gaudens's allegorical Archimedes statue, representing the gift of mechanics, one of six on the parapet above the entrance to Washington D.C.'s Union Station, Washington (d.c.), District Of Columbia, 1850–1939
Louis St. Gaudens's allegorical Archimedes statue, representing the gift of mechanics, one of six on the parapet above the entrance to Washington D.C.'s Union Station, Washington (d.c.), District Of Columbia, 1850–1939. Railroad stations — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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