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Photograph of Water and Light. A Lawrie relief beside Washington’s Municipal Police Station, with its earlier setting preserved in an antique postcard.

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Water and Light

A Lawrie relief beside Washington’s Municipal Police Station, with its earlier setting preserved in an antique postcard.

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Water and Light

Municipal Police Station · Washington, D.C.

This is located immediately to the west of the Municipal Police Station, formerly the District Municipal Building of Washington, D.C.

The previous incarnation of the building is shown in this antique postcard.

Municipal Police Station · Washington, D.C.

Building and study

District Municipal Building, Washington, D.C., shown in an antique postcard
Study for Water and Light
“Sculpture Cost $7500; Unfinished”

Easton Star-Democrat clipping, October 30, 1959, reporting on Lawrie’s unfinished relief for Washington’s Municipal Center. The article describes panels symbolising “light, water and thoroughfare.”

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