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By Richard Horan
Novelist and nature author Richard Horan launched into an experience throughout the United States to bare that farming remains to be the colourful beating middle of our state. Horan went from coast to coast, vacationing natural kin farms and dealing the harvests of greater than a dozen crucial or strange nutrition crops—from Kansas wheat and Michigan wild rice to Maine potatoes, California walnuts, and Cape Cod cranberries—in seek of connections with the farmers, the soil, the seasons, and the lifeblood of the United States.
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They offered $500 and a lot in the federal city as prizes for the best plan, while the runner-up would receive $250. Entrants were expected to provide an elevation of each front of the building, sections, and floor plans. Estimates of brickwork necessary for the walls were also expected. This seemingly modest set of requirements actually included more drawings than were usually made for a building during this period, and the contestants were given little time to develop their designs. Dated March 15, 1792, the advertisement was sent to newspapers in Boston, Baltimore, Charleston, Richmond, Philadelphia, and New York; the commissioners expected the designs to be in their hands by July 15, 1792.
63 Williams was asked to hire 100 slaves under these terms and to buy Indian meal to feed them. During the first week of December 1794, the commissioners focused on the stone supply for the next building season. 64 He could, however, say that the foundations required 608 perches of stone to raise them one foot.
It was unlike anything ever seen in the United States. It was grand and monumental—just as Washington wanted—but it was also too foreign and promised to be too expensive. Yet with its central dome and flanking wings, the “Fancy Piece” was a prophetic composition. 40 Thornton’s design was partly an essay in the emerging neoclassical style and partly an orthodox, high-style Georgian building. Its centerpiece was a domed rotunda fronted by a Corinthian portico. The portico, with twelve Corinthian columns standing on a one-story arcade, provided a sheltered carriage way and a balcony similar to those at Federal Hall in New York but larger and grander.