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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C.. It is a 2,030-by-167-foot (619 by 51 m) rectangular pool located on the National Mall , directly east of the Lincoln Memorial , with the World War II Memorial and Washington Monument to the east of the reflecting pool.
A front view of the memorial's eastern façade The Lincoln Memorial and its reflecting pool. The exterior of the Memorial echoes a classic Greek temple and features Yule marble quarried from Colorado. The structure measures 189.7 by 118.5 feet (57.8 by 36.1 m) and is 99 feet (30 m) tall.
It includes the parkland that extends south of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, from the Lincoln Memorial to the grounds of the Washington Monument. The park is the site of several national landmarks including the Korean War Veterans Memorial , Jefferson Memorial , Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial , George Mason Memorial , and the Martin ...
From 2010 to 2012, NPS contractors rebuilt the aging Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which had first been constructed in the early 1920s and whose water had come from the pipes that supply Washington, D.C., with its drinking water.
The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings, dating from World War I, stand to the right of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The other temporary buildings were constructed during World War II. The U.S. government constructed a number of temporary buildings on the National Mall during World War I and II which stood from 1918 until 1971.
Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling that — for the moment — the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress. The spectrum of ...
In August 1918, the Congressionally-funded Tidal Basin Bathing Beach opened in front of the site of the present-day Jefferson Memorial. Although the racially-segregated beach was "a place to see people and be seen", a strictly-enforced rule prohibited women's bathing suits that stopped more than six inches above the knee.
A man was arrested in New York City on Monday and accused of jumping into a reflecting pool at the 9/11 Memorial, police said.