- One of the most iconic buildings in Washington DC is the one dedicated Thomas Jefferson. But do you know all the facts about the Jefferson Memorial?
- The Jefferson Memorial was officially dedicated by President Roosevelt on April 13, 1943, the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birthday.
- ‹ › The Jefferson Memorial is a tribute to Thomas Jefferson, a founding father of the United States and the nation's third president.
- By this point, Pope had died in 1937 and his surviving partners, Daniel P. Higgins and Otto R. Eggers, assumed leadership for the Jefferson Memorial's construction.
- The Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC’s West Potomac Park was built in 1939 to honour President Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding...
- Here you’ll find Jefferson’s stately bronze statue and his most famous quotes etched on the memorial’s interior walls.
- The Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC is a dome-shaped rotunda that honors our third president, Thomas Jefferson.
- The circular, colonnaded structure of the Memorial is an adaptation of Jefferson’s favored Pantheon in Rome.
- The domed interior of the memorial contains the 19-foot bronze statue of Jefferson standing on a 6-foot pedestal of black Minnesota granite.
- The Jefferson memorial features a 19 ft statue of Thomas Jefferson, centered in a large open-air rotunda situated on the edge of the Tidal Basin.