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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.
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 ...
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.
The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings were disliked by many as going against the intentions of Pierre Charles L'Enfant of making the National Mall into an open space surrounded by aesthetically pleasing government buildings. The Munitions and Navy buildings were described as "unsightly shacks, of which many scores sprung up like mushrooms ...
Opened in 1910, the museum on the National Mall was one of the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to hold the national collections and research facilities. [7] The main building has an overall area of 1.5 million square feet (140,000 m 2 ) with 325,000 square feet (30,200 m 2 ) of exhibition and public space and houses over ...
The National Mall was the centerpiece of the McMillan Plan.. The McMillan Plan (formally titled The Report of the Senate Park Commission.The Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia) is a comprehensive planning document for the development of the monumental core and the park system of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
I suggest we replace some of these map images like File:National mall (east) satellite image.jpg and File:Constitution gardens satellite image.jpg with a map template like Template:Maplink or Template:OSM Location map (see example at right). I realize that these images were probably posted several years before these map templates were ...