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These twenty-two Corinthian columns were part of the East Portico of the United States Capitol beginning in 1828 when the Capitol was completed. For 130 years, until 1958, the columns proudly held up the East Portico where many presidents from Andrew Jackson in 1829 to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 were sworn in. In 1958 renovation commenced on the Capitol and the East Portico was enlarged, requiring the removal of these columns for much larger ones. These historic columns were disposed of in a warehouse and forgotten for thirty years until Ethel Garrett, a benefactor of the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., remembered that the columns existed, and began a campaign to have the columns become the centerpiece of the National Arboretum. Thanks to Garrett and her supporters, these columns now stand proudly on a knoll in a meadow just inside the arboretum grounds.

The United States National Arboretum was established in 1927 by an act of Congress and is operated by the Department...

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...