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Collage on Main Street. (George Calomiris-designed building at Pennsylvania Ave. & 24th St. in Washington, DC) (column)
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April 1, 1990
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When Robert Venturi said, some 25 years ago, that "Main Street is almost all right," he was probably not thinking of Pennsylvania Avenue. That highway, bisecting Washington, DC, is usually referred to as "America's Main Street"; and it hasn't been "all right" for as long as anybody can remember. Moreover, it hasn't got much better in recent years. Quite the contrary, in fact.
The chief problem with Pennsylvania Avenue is that it is simply too wide to be a very comfortable " Main Street." Its northern edge is barely visible, on a foggy day, from its southern sidewalk, and vice versa. it is, in fact, a vast parade ground, roughly on the scale of New Delhi's Raj Path, and ...
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