Jefferson Memorial | Favorite Architecture
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and writer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress, governor of the newly independent Commonwealth of Virginia, American minister to King Louis XVI, and the Kingdom of France, first U.S. Secretary of State under the first President George Washington, the second Vice President of the United States under second President John Adams, and also the third President (1801–1809), as well as being the founder of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia,More info:wiki
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Situated on the shores of the Tidal Basin, the Jefferson Memorial occupies a prominent position as the southern anchor of the District of Columbia’s meridian line, on axis with the White House and complementing the cross-axis of the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol.
Completed between 1939 and 1943, John Russell Pope’s memorial structure includes a portico, a circular colonnade surrounded by marble steps, and a shallow open-air dome. Pope’s neoclassical structure is complemented by the symmetry of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.’s Beaux Arts landscape that transitions to well-treed pastoral grounds. Olmsted placed the memorial on a plinth of three circumscribed earthen terraces of equal width, with walls descending to meet a round drive previously lined with elms at its base. Axial views of and from the monument are framed with four clusters of hollies, pines, and evergreen shrubs. The paved north plaza affords expansive views across the Tidal Basin, while the park-like south side contains a central lawn and perimeter shade trees complemented by the pre-existing cherry trees of the Tidal Basin. Later alterations include a foreshortened landscape south of the memorial due to highway expansion, a reconfigured circular drive and north plaza, and the addition of perimeter security barriers.
The Memorial was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
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Thomas Jefferson memorial architecture is not confined to the monument honoring the third American president: it includes the very principles serving as the foundation for American democracy. Jefferson left to the future not only ideas but also a great body of practical achievements. President Kennedy recognized those accomplishments when he told a gathering of Nobel Prize winners that they were the greatest assemblage of talent in the White House since Jefferson had dinner there alone. With his strong beliefs in the rights of man and a government derived from the people, in the principle of a government free from religious imposition, and in equal access to educational resources, Thomas Jefferson took a powerful stand for humanitarian freedom over two centuries ago that still resonates with our people today.
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The Jefferson Memorial is currently undergoing renovations. Most of the memorial will remain open during the work, although the east side will be used for construction staging. The project is expected to be completed around May 2020.
Sitting on the southern axis of the National Mall, opposite the White House and Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial sits on the bank of Tidal Basin on reclaimed land on was once part of the Potomac.
A classical domed structure of the kind that Jefferson made famous in the United States after his stay in France, the structure anchored at its center by an oversized statue of Thomas Jefferson. It’s an open air memorial and, like the Lincoln Memorial, open 24 hours.
The Jefferson Memorial is at its photogenic best during late-March through early-April during the blooming of the cherry blossoms that ring the Tidal Pool.
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