Posts Tagged ‘Monumental’
Monumental: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial
On Sunday (assuming no hurricane disruptions), the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial will be dedicated by President Obama. As this will be the first major memorial dedicated along the Mall area since the World War II Memorial in 2004, I thought it would be interesting to review the monument and see what others’ views are.
More »Monumental: Nathanael Greene
In the center of Stanton Square in Northeast, stands Revolutionary War Hero and native son of Rhode Island Nathanael Greene. His controversial advice (including burning New York City to the ground as part of a retreat in 1776, which, to me, sounds like the wisdom of the sages) won him favor with General Washington, [...]
More »Monumental: James Abram Garfield
You know how you have a favorite president growing up? Like, you get assigned the guy, knowing he’s not one of the big five, but he turns out to be interesting in his own right? Meet mine, James Abram Garfield. I think it was in Mrs. Franti’s third-grade class that we all [...]
More »Monumental: Daniel Webster
The statue of Daniel Webster that stands next to the Embassy of the Philippines on Massachusetts Avenue is largely ordinary. It’s a 12-foot bronze in the classical revival style, a stern and somber great man with his cape over his shoulder. The Gaetano Trentanove bronze was presented to the United States by Mr. [...]
More »Monumental: John Paul Jones
Where 17th Street dead-ends in Independence Avenue, just to the south of the World War II Memorial, stands John Paul Jones, atop a Marble Platform. The monument, built in 1912 as the first in Potomac Park, stands as the memorial to our first great Naval hero. While his remains lie in the chapel [...]
More »Monumental: GAR Stephenson Memorial
While the Grand Army of the Republic might seem like something out of a bad pulp science fiction story, it’s also something that’s fairly real to American History. The monument to it, and its founder, stand just off Pennsylvania Avenue in Penn Quarter. The Grand Army was a fraternal organization established in 1866 [...]
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