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Jefferson Memorial's exterior Jefferson Memorial's interior. The Jefferson Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C., built in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, a founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation's third president.
Gateway Arch National Park in St. Louis, Missouri, was named Jefferson National Expansion Memorial from 1935 until 2018; Jefferson School Park, Hobbs, New Mexico; Thomas Jefferson Park, in New York City; Jefferson Pools, the oldest US spa buildings, where President Jefferson bathed, in Warm Springs, Virginia
The memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town. It was dedicated on July 4, 1984, exactly 208 years after the Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence.
The Jefferson Memorial was once a shiny white monument, but over the past decade or so its dome has developed quite a patina, notes Sky News. Strange slime covering parts of Jefferson Memorial ...
The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
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The Jefferson Memorial, a memorial to Thomas Jefferson built between 1939 and 1943. John Russell Pope (April 24, 1874 – August 27, 1937) was an American architect whose firm is widely known for designing major public buildings, including the National Archives and Records Administration building (completed in 1935), the Jefferson Memorial (completed in 1943) and the West Building of the ...
Louisville's Jefferson Memorial Forest is receiving $2.5 million in state funding for forest improvements, according to a news release issued Tuesday.. Friendship House Louisville KY Man, 73 ...