With all that was done to preserve and enhance the natural quality ofits valley, Rock Creek remained a blighted spectacle at its mouth--apoint of great potential attractiveness, as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.,had observed in 1925 (page 63). The National Park Service acquiredpossession of the mole at the creek's juncture with the Potomac, but theland just west of the mole and along the west bank of the creek below KStreet remained in industrial use.

In 1956 the Service initiated planning for a water sports facility onthe mole as part of its MISSION 66 development program. ArchitectWilliam Haussmann visited boathouses at the U.S. Naval Academy,Philadelphia, Princeton, and Syracuse in preparing the design. His planincluded restoration of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal dam at the creekmouth and its tidelock across the tip of the mole. The total cost wasestimated at $521,500. [77]


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David V. Auld, the District's director of sanitary engineering, againraised the pollution issue, and John Nolen, Jr., retired staff directorof the National Capital Planning Commission, recalled Olmsted's desireto keep the view at the creek mouth open. Nolen favored moving the boatcenter upriver to the mouth of Foundry Branch, above Georgetown.Haussmann agreed that the Foundry Branch site was "certainly preferablefrom the esthetic point of view," but vehicular access to it wasdifficult. Controversy continued into the following year, with Districtpublic health authorities and the Washington Post opposing themole location on health grounds. [79]

In March 1959 Harry Thompson, then superintendent, made a final pleafor the mole site. Director Wirth informed Secretary of the InteriorFred A. Seaton of the Service's plans to proceed at that location, andin July Seaton finally concurred. On September 22 a $92,289 contract fora parking lot and approach road and bridge over Rock Creek was awardedto Allied Contractors, Inc., followed two months later by a $196,272award to James L. Partello, Inc., for the boathouse. [80]

The block directly adjoining the creek and the mole was encumbered bya 20-foot building height covenant, the result of a 1941 transactionbetween the government and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, its owner atthe time. The present owner and developer, seeking to build a luxuryhotel and an office building on the block, wanted relief from the heightrestriction. In exchange, it was willing to grant benefits of equaleconomic value to the National Park Service, which held the covenant forthe government. Under the agreement reached by the parties in 1984 thetwo buildings would rise to between 50 and 60 feet but would be set wellback from the creek and riverfront. The developer would grant perpetualpublic access along the river and creek and pay for stabilization andlandscaping of both creek banks and restoration of the canal tidelock. e24fc04721

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