The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons... torrent

The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington D.C. - David Ovason [epub]

In this audacious, erudite study, Ovason sets out to prove that Washington, D.C., was designed and built largely by Masonic architects and that they imprinted the beliefs of their brotherhood on the city's layout.

Benjamin Franklin, architect James Hoban (who designed the White House), Presidents Garfield and Polk and Statue of Liberty sculptor Frederic Bartholdi were all Masons. Indeed, when President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol building in 1793, he wore a Masonic apron adorned with occult Masonic symbols and an image of the zodiac.

Although textbooks teach that the federal city was the brainchild of French engineer Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, Ovason argues that Washington, Jefferson, U.S. Surveyor General Andrew Ellicott and others - many of them Masons - substantially modified L'Enfant's original blueprint. As a result, Masonic symbolism appears in the marble, plaster, concrete, glass and paint facades of the Federal Reserve, the Library of Congress and other landmarks.

This book, the result of a decade of thought and research, establishes the plausibility of Ovason's theory.

Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (April 1, 2002)