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This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , such work is in the public domain in the United States.
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.
This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , such work is in the public domain in the United States.
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.
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]
The S. Dillon Ripley Center, better known simply as the Ripley Center, is one of the buildings of the Smithsonian Institution series of museums located in the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The above-ground portion is only a small pagoda, and it descends into a larger underground portion. The Ripley Center houses the International Gallery ...
The External links section of the article formerly contained a link to a National Park Service (NPS) web page that contained two different types of maps of the National Mall. [1] I have replaced that link with a link to a web page that contains the NPS map that is most relevant to the article. [ 2 ]
The National Mall — part of the National Mall and Memorial Parks Unit, of the NPS National Capital Parks, in Washington, D.C. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.