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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.
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
The Veterans Memorial Building was designed in the International style by the firm of Harley, Ellington and Day, which also designed the nearby 211 West Fort Street Building and the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center. The building exterior is faced with marble to conform with the master plan of the Civic Center.
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
However, a 2010 NPS plan for the Mall contains maps that show the Mall's general area to be larger. [27] [28] A document within the plan describes this area as "the grounds of the U.S. Capitol west to the Potomac River, and from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial north to Constitution Avenue". [7]
Farragut Square is a city square in Washington, D.C.'s Ward 2.It is bordered by K Street NW to the north, I Street NW to the south, on the east and west by segments of 17th Street NW, and interrupts Connecticut Avenue NW. [1]
The Jefferson Memorial Forest is a forest located in southwest Louisville, Kentucky, in the Knobs region of Kentucky. At 6,676 acres (27.02 km 2), it is one of the largest municipal urban forests in the United States. [1] [2] The forest was established as a tribute to area war dead but ultimately this was extended to all U.S. veterans.
Location of Jefferson Pier on 1800 map (top) and modern satellite image (bottom). The stone is on the National Mall almost due south of the center of the White House and the midline of 16th Street, NW, about due west of the center of the United States Capitol building, almost due north of the center of the Jefferson Memorial and 391 ft (119 m) WNW of the center of the Washington Monument.