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"The FTC occupied various sites in the District of Columbia during its early years. The Public Buildings Act of 1926 authorized Congress to fund the Federal Triangle project, a large-scale initiative to develop a 70-acre site between the White House and the U.S. Capitol with federal buildings executed in classical styles of architecture.

"At the urging of the American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Treasury Department turned over principal design responsibilities to private architects. Edward H. Bennett of the Chicago firm Bennett, Parsons and Frost oversaw the project and designed the final building, which would become the headquarters for the FTC.

"In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid the building cornerstone ... In his speech, Roosevelt expressed hope that the 'permanent home of the Federal Trade Commission stand for all time as a symbol of the purpose of the government to insist on a greater application of the golden rule to the conduct of corporation and business and enterprises in their relationship to the body politic.'

"Located at the eastern point of the Federal Triangle, it was originally called the Apex Building. Staff moved into the building on April 21, 1938. Over the years, the FTC's responsibilities expanded to include the enforcement of credit laws, oversight of the National Do Not Call Registry, and the development of policies concerning Internet fraud and privacy." — GSA


Federal Trade Commission – Then and Now (60+ years later)

"Federal Trade Commission (2007)" by J.Labrado



"Apex Building (c.1945)"    by E.B. Thompson

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Beautiful Vintage Memory, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Info on Pauline from the Presidential pet museum: www.presidentialpetmuseum.com/Pets/Pauline_Wayne.htm

Here is another photo of the cow, but the spots don't look the same to me! What's the story? Is one of the images actually reversed, so we're really seeing the cow's other side? Or is one the PREVIOUS presidential cow, Mooly Wooly? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cow-taft.jpg Thanks for this photo, by the way, it was a big thrill for me. I'm from Wisconsin, and my grandfather shook hands with president Taft in 1912 when Taft visited Appleton, Wisconsin. Grandpa was ten years old. The president suddenly turned to him and said, "Little boy, how would you like to shake hands with the president of the United States?" Big turning point and influence on my grandfather's life. When George Bush came to Appleton, the Post-Crescent newspaper declared it was the first time a "sitting president" had come to town. My grandfather straightened the newspaper out, which was duly acknowledged in a follow up article. Pauline was from Kenosha, Wisconsin. The original detailed New York Times newspaper article about Pauline can be viewed at: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9507E...

Cow controversy! I love it!

Cow Gate! My money is on Mooley Wooly! (then again, those 'spots' were hand colored ;)

Ha! Cow Gate! I love it.

This is the Churchill Hotel on Connecticut Avenue in Dupont Circle

Thanks for the input!

The bronze equestrian statue in the foreground honors George B. (Brinton) McClellan (1826-1885) who was a controversial major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac, and led the Union Army during the Battle of Antietam – the single bloodiest day in American military history, with some 23,000 casualties.   He married Ellen Mary Marcy in 1860. Known as "Little Mac", he was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1878. –excerpted Wikipedia The site of this statue marks the beginning of Kalorama Triangle – a residential enclave in Northwest Washington bounded by three major thoroughfares: Connecticut Avenue, Calvert Street and Columbia Road. The Kalorama Triangle Historic District includes 353 historic buildings. (The Churchill originally opened as a luxury apartment building in 1906, and was later converted to a hotel.) The statue was erected in 1907, and is currently (April, 2009) being restored.