Monumentality in Microcosm
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Reservations 176 & 71 at Mount Vernon Square, NW (Abad Ocubillo 2012; after datasets provided by the Office of the Chief Techology Officer of Washington, D.C.)
Reservation 176, Mount Vernon Square NW (Office of Public Buildings & Grounds 1927)
Thomas Circle (Abad Ocubillo 2012; after datasets provided by the Office of the Chief Techology Officer of Washington, D.C.)
Reservation 277, NW (Abad Ocubillo 2012)
Reservation 138, NW (Abad Ocubillo 2012)
Reservation 138, NW (Abad Ocubillo 2012)
Reservation 85, NE (Abad Ocubillo 2012)
Many Triangluar Reservations occur at the end of a triangular city block instead of floating like islands surrounded by roadway. This means that the shortest side of the public triangle parcel abuts private property beyond. Sometimes the edges between public and private are marked by walls, fences, or shrubbery. Other times, the boundary is completely indiscernible. Depending on the neighborhood and adjacent property owners, varied stewardship arrangments emerge.
Many of the original boundary stones placed by the Office of Public Buildings & Grounds (and its successor agencies) between the 1870s and 1930s still remain in situ. These six-inch by six-inch blocks of granite, etched with the letters "OPB&G" or "US", can be seen at Reservations 138 NW, 140 NW, and 277 NW. At other sites - such as Reservation 142 NW - the blocks are partially encased by concrete quarter-round coping.