The Jefferson Memorial At The Tidal Basin
by Cora Wandel
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The Jefferson Memorial At The Tidal Basin
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Cora Wandel
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The Jefferson Memorial is for Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801 to 1809), and the second Vice President of the United States under John Adams. He also founded the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia, near Monticello, his famous estate near Charlottesville. The Jefferson Memorial was completed in 1943. Its architect was John Russell Pope, who designed the neoclassical memorial based on Jefferson's choice of that style for Monticello. (Pope also designed several other major buildings in Washington, including the National Archives and the National Gallery of Art.) The memorial is prominently situated on the Tidal Basin, a mostly man-made reservoir between the nearby Potomac River and Washington Channel. The Tidal Basin is also where the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Martin Luther King, Jr. memorials are located. The Tidal Basin is surrounded by hundreds of cherry blossom trees, and attracts large crowds when blossoms are in bloom in early spring. The most popular time to photograph the Jefferson Memorial is when cherry blossoms are blooming, but this photograph was taken in the dead of winter, which explains the large strip of ice on the Tidal Basin.
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August 31st, 2017
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