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  2. National Mall - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. National Mall and Memorial Parks - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The Ellipse - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool - Wikipedia

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    Using an ozone disinfectant system installed during the renovation, [9] the National Park Service said it would double the amount of algae-killing ozone in the pool to control future outbreaks. [8] In 2013, construction on the National World War II Memorial damaged the eastern end of the Reflecting Pool. NPS workers closed the eastern 30 feet ...

  6. Temporary buildings of the National Mall - Wikipedia

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    The 1902 McMillan Plan proposed an overarching layout for the National Mall based on City Beautiful principles, replacing the Victorian layout that existed at that point. Its early implementation prior to World War I included initiating the replacement of the old Department of Agriculture Building with the current headquarters, removal of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station, and ...

  7. Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

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    Entrance to the memorial grove Footbridge across Boundary Channel connecting the Grove to the Pentagon grounds. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson died on January 22, 1973. . Soon after, Johnson's admirers proposed constructing a statue in Washington, D.C., in his memory, but concern that it would be defaced led to rejection of that ide

  8. West Potomac Park - Wikipedia

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    Almost none of the National Mall west of the Washington Monument grounds and below Constitution Avenue NW existed prior to 1882. [5] After terrible flooding inundated much of downtown Washington, D.C., in 1881, Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge a deep channel in the Potomac and use the material to fill in the Potomac (creating the current banks of the river) and raise much ...

  9. Main Navy and Munitions Buildings - Wikipedia

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    Location of the Munitions and Main Navy Buildings on a 1945 USGS map. The Munitions Building, constructed in 1918, contained 841,000 square feet (78,100 m 2) of space across three stories and was designed to provide temporary accommodations for 9,000 Department of War employees. [6]