enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. File:NPS national-mall-3d-map.pdf - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NPS_national-mall-3d...

    Author: National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center, publications: Image title: Washington, the Nation's Capital; Short title: NAMAWayfindingMapLarge; Label

  3. National Mall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mall

    The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States.It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues.

  4. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial...

    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. [1]

  5. L'Enfant Plan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Enfant_Plan

    View of the City of Washington in 1792. L'Enfant was a French artist and engineer who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. [5] In 1789, discussions were underway regarding a new federal capital city for the United States, and L'Enfant wrote to President Washington asking to be commissioned to plan the city.

  6. The Ellipse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellipse

    The Ellipse, sometimes referred to as President's Park South, is a 52-acre (21 ha) park south of the White House fence and north of Constitution Avenue and the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The Ellipse is also the name of the five-furlong (1.0 km) circumference street within the park.

  7. National Mall and Memorial Parks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mall_and_Memorial...

    National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service (NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the United States.

  8. Northwest (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_(Washington,_D.C.)

    Color-enhanced USGS satellite image of Washington, D.C. with the crosshairs marking the quadrant divisions of Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Capitol at the center of the dividing lines. To the west of the Capitol extends the National Mall, visible as a slight green band in the image.

  9. Federal Triangle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Triangle

    By October 1928, the Board of Architectural Consultants had agreed with prior decisions that no office building should be constructed on the National Mall, and that this space should be reserved for museums. [29] Plans for the eastern apex of Federal Triangle, however, were complicated by an ongoing effort to create a George Washington Memorial.