The sight Obama saw: How Daniel Burnham and his planners from the Chicago fair remade the National Mall | The Skyline »
Posted By Deidre 11 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsWhen Barack Obama takes the oath of office Tuesday, he' ll look down the National Mall (left) and toward an echo of a historic landscape that once stood not far from his house on Chicago' s South Side: The World' s Columbian Exposition of 1893, called " the White City" (below) for its spectacular ensemble of temporary, Beaux-Arts buildings
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