Outline Report of Architectural Work on the Restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for Recreational Use (Georgetown, D.C., to Seneca, MD)

摘要

The restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal for use as a recreational waterway presents a problem with a number of interesting elements. The Canal structures themselves are of a type, architecturally and structurally, so characteristic of their time that they have been taken as a guide in all the restoration work. In addition to such material evidence, there are also available, from the records obtained from the Canal Company when the property was acquired by the Government, the original specification of 1828 that governed the design of the lock tenders' houses in the beginning.