The self-concious remaking of Ottawa into a national capital from a frontier lumber production centre required much remaking of the structure of the city. A primary goal of planners was to see industry, the previous reason for the town's existence, removed to the outskirts of town, or removed altogether. For a national capital whose Parliamentary Precinct was built on the principles of the picturesque movement, vast centrally located and sprawling factory districts were seen to be incompatable with romantic vistas. A movement was spawned to rid the city of its blight, and the Flats fell victim to beautification. Little architectural evidence remains of the previous Chaudiere industrial district which helped build a nation, visible only in battered remnants on the Chaudiere islands and in old paintings, maps and photographs.