Chapter 303.
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CHAP. 303.— Joint Resolution To change the name of B Street northwest, in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. February 25, 1931.[[H. J. Res. 404](/us/bill/71/hjres/404).][[Pub. Res., No. 123](/us/bill/71/pubres/123).] Whereas one of the important results of the completion of the work, District of Columbia.Preamble.now in progress, of carrying out the plans of the National Government for public improvements in the District of Columbia, will be a widened B Street northwest, approximately two miles long, from the Capitol Grounds to Arlington Memorial Bridge; and 1420 Whereas this street, bordered by stately public buildings and by the beautiful Mall and Parkway, within which are the Nation’s monument to George Washington, and memorial to Abraham Lincoln, will be one of the most impressive thoroughfares in the world; and Whereas a street thus connecting the Capital with the Memorial Bridge leading over the Potomac River to Arlington National Cemetery, formerly the home estate of Robert E.
Lee, and to the Washington Memorial Highway which ends at Mount Vernon— a street so rich in historical association and destined during the centuries to behold countless processions of American patriots and millions of liberty-loving men, women, and children, wending their way to Arlington and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier— should have a name in keeping with its character, a name of dignity and beauty and profound significance; and Whereas the Constitution of the United States of America, “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and the purpose of man,” is the mighty instrument which made the land of Washington and Lincoln and Lee “An indissoluble union of indestructible States” from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, from the Atlantic Ocean to the golden shores of the Pacific, the grandest home that Freedom ever knew, under the Changes in names of designated streets, etc.freest government the world has ever seen:
Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Constitution Avenue, formerly B Street. That in honor of the Constitution of the United States of America, the thoroughfare now known as B Street northwest, in the District of Columbia, and as it may at any time be extended, widened, or otherwise changed, shall hereafter bear the name “Constitution Avenue.” Louisiana Avenue.New location.That in honor of the State of Louisiana and that territory comprised in the “Louisiana Purchase” from which thirteen other sovereign States of this Union, in whole or in part, were carved, the thoroughfare running from the Union Station Plaza, crossing North Capitol Street and New Jersey and Indiana Avenues and running into Pennsylvania Avenue, shall hereafter bear the name “Louisiana Avenue” Present, vacated.That the portion of the avenue now known as “Louisiana Avenue,” not absorbed by the enlarging of the park and plan system of the Planning Commission, shall no longer be known as “Louisiana Avenue.
” Approved, February 25, 1931.