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Event
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19341228
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Title
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Washington Monument repair and theft of lightning rod points
Description
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During the fall and winter months of 1934, the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a> was prepped for repairs and cleaning, due to cracking at the base. Scaffolding was built around the 550-foot monument to allow the workers to make the repairs with Public Works Administration funding. The restoration lasted 140 days, during which time the Monument remained open to visitors. However, on December 28th, 1934, someone scaled the scaffolding to remove 107 of the 170 gold-plated, platinum-tipped lightning rod points from the top of the monument. The points were valued at $8 each, which totaled $856.
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1920-1949
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/thc1995013204/PP/">View original.</a>
Date
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12/28/1934
building the mall
design & monuments
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/5a356f45d6261d35970428d3620a47c2.jpg
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Event Type
Planning and Design
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20120800
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Reflecting Pool reconstructed
Description
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Restoration of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/23">Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool</a> began in November 2010. The two-year, $30.7 million renovation project almost completely rebuilt the structure. The 1923 original pool was built on an unstable foundation that sank and cracked. The overhauled pool is shallower, reinforced with over 2,000 pilings driven to the underlying bedrock, and a gray tint was added to increase the pool’s reflectivity. The water supply system was replaced, and instead of stagnant water, the supply is now circulated from the nearby <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/430">Tidal Basin</a>. Gravel sidewalks bordering the pool were also replaced with pavement to prevent erosion.
Type
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Event
Coverage
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2000-present
Source
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Justin Brown on Flickr.com. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justininsd/6239416270">View original.</a>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2010-2012
building the mall
design & monuments
everyday life
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Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
Text describing the appearance of the place and its situation on the Mall.
The museum’s exterior design resembles a three-sided crown, or cap, of a column that represents faith, hope, and resiliency. The bronze metal lattice work filters daylight into the museum and recalls the craftsmanship of enslaved African Americans and sets the museum apart from the many white marble buildings on the Mall.
Location
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Five acre site at 1400 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
Type
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Museums
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Title
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National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAACH)
Description
An account of the resource
The National Museum of African American History and Culture was established by an Act of Congress in 2003 and is the only national museum devoted to African American life. The goals of the museum are: to educate about African American history and culture; to show the importance of African American history to American history; to show the global context of American history more broadly; and to be a place of collaboration, both with other museums and with new audiences.
Creator
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Principal architects Phillip Freelon and David Adjaye, with an architectural team from the firms the Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates, Davis Brody Bond, and the SmithGroup.
Source
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National Museum of African American History and Culture. <a href="http://nmaahc.si.edu/Building">View original</a>.
Date
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2016 (opened)
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
2000-present
building the mall
design & monuments
museums
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/f1758931b91c3e4f4f9c191a6e5e0b3b.jpg
f36893e8a92b8d8b295f2a8732bef0e2
Place
Important spaces on the mall (See the "Places" writeboard in basecamp.)
Physical Description
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Marble, single story building with a square floor plan.
Location
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Independence Avenue, between 15th and 17th Streets NW on the Washington Monument grounds.
Type
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Monuments
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Survey Lodge
Description
An account of the resource
Located on the grounds of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>, the Survey Lodge was originally a boiler and steam house for the machinery necessary to power the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/502">Washington Monument's elevator</a>. It was constructed of leftover marble and granite from the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/281">construction of the Washington Monument</a>. Today, the site is a National Park Service Ranger Station.
Creator
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William Bradley
Date
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1886
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1860-1889
building the mall
design & monuments
work & play
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Still Image
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Physical Dimensions
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4 x 5 in. or smaller
Original Format
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Glass negative
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Title
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City of Washington
Description
An account of the resource
President <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/152">George Washington</a> and city planner <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/82">Pierre L'Enfant</a> chose the land for the new capital of the United States, in part, because of the beauty of its landscape. Rolling hills, the meeting point of two rivers, flat lands along the river banks, and fields good for growing crops were positive signs. This image shows a romantic view of the city looking across the Potomac River from Virginia into the District. The Capitol building stands on a hill. Sailing ships and tranquil farmlands speak of a prosperous and beautiful city.
Source
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009014634/"> View original</a>.
Date
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1939
Coverage
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Pre-1800s
building the mall
design & monuments
environment
ghost mall
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/5541e160f4fc69b55bc67db110af159f.jpg
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Still Image
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Original Format
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Painting
Physical Dimensions
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Unknown
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Tiber Creek: The Bathers
Description
An account of the resource
<a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/40">Tiber Creek</a> raced through the city from the base of Capitol Hill to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Potomac River</a>. In the early 1800s, it was about 800 feet wide, flowing just below the hill where <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/66">White House</a> was built. Swimmers, boaters, and fishermen navigated its waters. Kingfishers, herons, muskrats, and turtles lived on its marshy banks. Before construction began on the new city of Washington, the Tiber Creek and its tree-lined banks created a natural drainage area from other bodies of water in the area. Artist Peter Waddell painted this reconstruction of the Tiber in 2004, using descriptions from early visitors and residents of Washington to envision how the environment looked in the early 1800s.
Creator
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Peter Waddell
Source
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White House Historical Association. <a href="https://www.whitehousehistory.org/timber-creek-the-bathers-john-quincy-adams-takes-a-deadly-chance-1825-by-peter-waddell">View original</a>.
Date
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2004
Coverage
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1800-1829
Rights
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Copyright White House Historical Association, 2004
building the mall
design & monuments
environment
ghost mall
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https://mallhistory.org/files/original/ba05e107e9adc9a0415ccf36ebd3d681.jpg
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Text
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Botanic Gardens Structure Expected to Be Ready Next Summer. <br /><br />Construction work on the new and modern conservatory of the Botanic Gardens has been progressing steadily since the corner stone was laid in the latter part of last year, and it is expected that it will be ready for occupancy in the middle of next summer. <br /><br />One of the outstanding features of the conservatory, which will be the finest in the world when finished, is that all of the framework and superstructure is made of aluminum. This metal is especially adapted for construction work in conservatories from a technical viewpoint. <br /><br />The ventilators and heat regulators of the new building will be entirely electrically operated. <br /><br />Once the new buildings are completed the staff of the gardens will move the many hundreds of rare plants from their present location across the street to the new gardens, which will be bounded by Maryland avenue, First street southwest and Canal street. <br /><br />The Botanic Gardens are 113 years old, and in the clearing work contractors have been obliged to move many old landmarks, including the old wall which has bounded the garden property for 70 years. <br /><br />The work is being carried on under the supervision of the Architect of the Capitol, David Lynn, the technical work being done by Bennet, Parsons & Frost, architects, of New York City. George W. Hess is director of the Botanic Gardens.
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New Conservatory is Rising Steadily
Description
An account of the resource
The original <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/29">botanic gardens</a> in Washington were built in line with the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/59">Capitol building</a>, where the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/25">Capitol Reflecting Pool</a> is today. The new design proposed for the Mall in the early 1900s called for an open green space from the Capitol to the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>, sparking a debate over the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/383">relocation of the Botanic Gardens</a>. The final decision was to shift the institution to Independence Ave, then Canal Street. The new buildings described in this article were state-of-the art for the time, fit for the National Botanic Gardens.
Source
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<em>The Washington Post</em>.
Date
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1/26/1932
Coverage
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1920-1949
building the mall
design & monuments
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<p class="p1">Washington, July 1, 1850</p>
<p class="p1">Among the many improvements now in progress in our city, both of a public and private kind, with great pleasure I witnessed the commencement of a National Botanic Garden. The site selected for that purpose is the handsome square of ground lying between Pennsylvania and Maryland avenues (known as the old Botanic Garden) and separated on its east side from the grounds around the Capitol by a street. This square contains near 12 acres, and will, when graded, be laid out in various compartments adapted to the arrangement and classification of both foreign and indigenous plants and trees, to each of which it is intended to attach a durable table, on which will be painted, in legible characters, the scientific name, then the local one, native country, together with its uses as applicable to the arts, &c., &c.</p>
<p class="p1">The ranges of conservatories for the protection of tropical and other tender plants during winter will, when finished, be over 300 feet in length, and the walls of some of these plant structures are already three or four feet above the surface, and towards their completion. Congress has very liberally appropriated $5,000.</p>
<p class="p1">The nucleus of the present very large collection of plants (the preservation of which gave rise to the above appropriation) was laid by the roots and seeds brought home by our Exploring Expedition under Capt. Wilkes; since then, however, through the instrumentality of officers of our government, residing or visiting foreign countries in our national vessels, many interesting plants have been added, so that the collection as it now stands, numbers about 11,000 species. From the rapid addition, through the number of plants sent in, and the necessity of occupying the grounds on which the old Green-houses stood, in order that the Patent office could be extended, decided Congress in granting a larger square or space, where the collection could be seen to better advantage, and thereby aid in the beautifying of our city, and at the same time afford space enough to test new esculent fruits and roots, and these, when found worthy of preservation, to be propagated and disseminated [illegible] our wide extended country for the benefit of the many. </p>
<p class="p1">Our citizens generally will be gratified to learn that this valuable acquisition in the metropolis is now in rapid progress, under the superintendence of the scientific, experienced and successful gardener, Mr. William D. Brackenridge.</p>
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newspaper article
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Title
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The National Botanic Garden - Its Commencement
Description
An account of the resource
This article from the Baltimore Sun discusses the establishment of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/29">National Botanic Garden</a> in Washington. The main source of the collection for the garden were botanic specimens gathered during the United States Exploring Expedition, which explored the coasts of North and South America from 1838 to 1842. These plants had been stored near the Patent Office but needed a new home. Congress chose to build the new botanic garden on the Mall where a private group had maintained a garden thirty years before: the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/406">Columbian Institution</a>'s botanic garden stood on the same site from 1820 to 1830.
Source
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<em>The Sun</em> (Baltimore).
Date
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7/2/1850
Coverage
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1830-1859
building the mall
design & monuments
environment
-
https://mallhistory.org/files/original/ff6a07396fa403e37379f51d3f9e4f4f.jpg
0e9247f60f1f99479e3b9e07c56e7cd0
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Title
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The national capital, Washington, D.C. Sketched from nature by Adolph Sachse, 1883-1884.
Creator
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Adolph Sachse
Identifier
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G3851.A3 1884 .S3
Still Image
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Map
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The national capital, Washington, DC
Description
An account of the resource
This detail of the bird's eye view of the city, "The national capital, Washington, D.C. Sketched from nature by Adolph Sachse, 1883-1884" shows the National Mall before the Army Corps of Engineers began to dredge the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/424">Potomac River</a> to fill in the tidal wetlands. The project was intended to enlarge the shipping channel and to help prevent flooding and sewage accumulation. The <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/326">Reclamation of Potomac Flats</a> began in 1882 and continued to 1890. Landfill extended the length and width of the Mall, forming East Potomac Park and extending the Mall beyond the site of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/36">Washington Monument</a>. When the project ended, Washington, DC, had 638 acres of new land.
Creator
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Adolph Sachse
Rights
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<span>Library of Congress Geography and Map Division</span>. <a href="http://www.loc.gov/item/75693178">View original</a>.
Coverage
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1860-1889
building the mall
design & monuments
environment
ghost mall
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<p class="p1">Conrad's boarding house was on the south side of Capitol hill and commanded an extensive and beautiful view. It was on the top of the hill, the precipitous sides of which were covered with grass, shrubs and trees in their wild uncultivated state. Between the foot of the hill and the broad Potomac extended a wide plain, through which the Tiber wound its way. The romantic beauty of this little stream was not then deformed by wharves or other works of art. Its banks were shaded with tall and umbrageous forest trees of every variety, among which the superb Tulep-Poplar rose conspicuous; the magnolia, the azalia, the hawthorn, the wild-rose and many other indigenous shrubs grew beneath their shade, while violets, anemonies and a thousand other sweet wood-flowers found shelter among their roots, from the winter's frost and greeted with the earliest bloom the return of spring. The wild grape-vine climbing from tree to tree hung in unpruned luxuriance among the branches of the trees and formed a fragrant and verdant canopy over the greensward, impervious to the noon day-sun. Beautiful banks of Tiber! delightful rambles! happy hours! How like a dream do ye now appear. Those trees, those shrubs, those flowers are gone. Man and his works have displaced the charms of nature. The poet, the botanist, the sportsman and the lover who once haunted those paths must seek far hence the shades in which they delight. Not only the banks of the Tiber, but those of the Potomack and Anacosta, were at this period adorned with native trees and shrubs and were distinguished by as romantic scenery as any rivers in our country. Indeed the whole plain was diversified with groves and clumps of forest trees which gave it the appearance of fine park. Such as grew on the public grounds ought to have been preserved, but in a government such as ours, where the people are sovereign, this could not be done. <em>The people</em>, the poorer inhabitants cut down these noble and beautiful trees for fuel. In one single night seventy tulip-Poplars were <em>girdled</em>, by which process life is destroyed and afterwards cut up at their leisure by the people. Nothing afflicted Mr. Jefferson like this wanton destruction of the fine trees scattered over the city-grounds.</p>
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The Mall in 1800
Description
An account of the resource
In this passage, <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/118">Margaret Bayard Smit</a>h describes the Mall as it was when she first arrived in Washington in 1800, a plain covered in trees, shrubs, and flowers. By the time she wrote this passage in 1837, the banks of the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/40">Tiber</a> had been transformed into the <a href="http://mallhistory.org/items/show/41">Washington Canal</a>, and the groves had been harvested for timber for the new city.
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Margaret Bayard Smith
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<div class="csl-bib-body">
<div class="csl-entry">Smith, Margaret Bayard. <a><em>The First Forty Years of Washington Society</em></a>. Edited by Gaillard Hunt and J. Henley Smith. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1906.</div>
</div>
Date
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1837
Coverage
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1800-1829
building the mall
design & monuments
environment
ghost mall