Lynchburg Virginian

NEW YORK WASHINGTON MONUMENT.

A letter to the National Intelligencer from New York states that the Board of Trustees of the New York Washington Monument Association on Monday last decided upon the design and plan of the proposed structure. From nearly a dozen designs presented, one offered by Calvin Pollard, an architect of New York, was chosen. It is thus described by the Intelligencer's correspondent:

The material of the structure is to be granite, and the style of the architecture principally Grecian. The form will be a pentagon, rising to the height of four hundred and fifty feet, divided into six unequal sections diminishing in diameter, one above the other. The monument rests upon a terrace 158 feet in diameter and 13 feet high. Its base is 169 feet in diameter. The rotunda in the first section is 40 feet in diameter and 67 feet in the height. The rotunda in the second section is 40 feet in diameter and 58 feet high. The third section has a rotunda of 35 by 58 feet. The fourth section rises 90 feet, the fifth 58 feet, and the sixth and last 50 feet. The whole to be surmounted by a statue of Washington twenty feet in height. Each section is ornamented with buttresses, cornice and balustrade. Around the rotunda in the first section are five rooms occupying the pentagonal projections, each 25 feet square and 54 feet in height, to be reached by spiral staircases from the rotunda; which also continue up to the second section. These rooms are designed, one for the use of the trustees, one for a registry of the names of contributors, one for a registry of the names of visitors and two for a library of works and documents having reference to the Revolution.

In the second section is the grand monumental rotunda, which is to contain a statue of Washington, surrounded by statues of his Major Generals, and his foreign allies who distinguished themselves during the war of the Revolution and a vacant pedestal inscribed with the name of the traitor Arnold. The third section is divided into six stories the rooms of which may be devoted to the use of artists and other purposes. The fourth section is divided into eight stories, and the fifth section into five stories. The sixth section, which is ascended by a single spiral stairway, has a gallery at the top 15 feet in diameter.

It is contemplated that the work will be commenced at an early day. The cost, including the interior finishings and appendages, is estimated at between $300,000 and $400,000. Arrangements have been made by the Association for a rapid and extensive subscription to their funds. The corner stone of the monument will be laid on the 19th of next month, the anniversary of the battle of Yorktown, and will doubtless be accompanied with interesting ceremonies.