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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.
Coordinates: 38.8893°N 77.045°W. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in September 2006, facing east towards the Washington Monument. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is the largest of the many reflecting pools in Washington, D.C.. It is a 2,030-by-167-foot (619 by 51 m) rectangular pool located on the National Mall, directly east of the ...
Smithsonian station is a Washington Metro station at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. The side platformed station was opened on July 1, 1977, and is operated by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). It is a stop on the Blue, Orange and Silver Lines. [2] The station's south entrance is at the southwest ...
The Lockkeeper's House is the oldest building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. [2] It was built in 1837 [2] at what is now the southwest corner of 17th Street, NW and Constitution Avenue, NW, near Constitution Gardens . The building dates to a period when the south end of 17th Street, NW was a wharf and Constitution Avenue, NW was the ...
National Park Service. 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 ...
The Kings’ Drum Major Institute and National Action Network host rally at Lincoln Memorial. WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands converged on the National Mall on Saturday for the 60th anniversary of ...
The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings were constructed in 1918 along Constitution Avenue (then known as B Street) on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall (Potomac Park) as the largest of a set of temporary war buildings on the National Mall. Both buildings were constructed by the Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, with the United States Department ...
Opened. April 4, 1917. The National Sylvan Theater — often simply the Sylvan Theater — is a public sylvan theater on the grounds of the Washington Monument, National Mall, in Washington, D.C., USA. It is located within the northwest corner of the 15th Street and Independence Avenue intersection, [1] [2] about 450 feet (137 m) southeast of ...