Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C.. It was dedicated to the 3rd President of the United States Thomas Jefferson. The neoclassical Memorial building on the Tidal Basin off the Washington Channel of the Potomac River was designed by the architect John Russell Pope.[1]
Construction began in December 1938. It was complete in 1939 with a ceremony attended by then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a National Memorial it was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.
Jefferson Memorial Media
Jefferson Memorial's interior
The Jefferson Memorial's construction in May 1941 as seen from across the Tidal Basin
The monument's marble steps, portico, circular colonnade of Ionic order columns, and shallow dome
The Jefferson Memorial's pediment features an Adolph Alexander Weinman sculpture of the Committee of Five.
The interior columns and walls
Rudulph Evans's statue of Thomas Jefferson in front of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, a document Jefferson principally authored and which historian Joseph Ellis has described as "the most potent and consequential words in American history."
Closeup of statue at Jefferson Memorial
Washington Monument (left) and Jefferson Memorial (right) with the Tidal Basin in the foreground
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Portico ceiling
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
References
- ↑ Documentation of the Jefferson Memorial. Office of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), of the National Park Service. September 1994. Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 October 2008
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