Why America's Jefferson Memorial Faces The White House Instead Of The Mall
The architect who designed America's Jefferson Memorial died before construction began. Women chained themselves to the cherry trees to stop it from being built. It was dedicated in the middle of World War Two with a plaster statue standing in for the bronze, because bronze was reserved for military use. Walk up onto the north portico, and you look directly at the White House across the Tidal Basin. =========================================================== SOURCES =========================================================== BOOKS AND ACADEMIC WORK Bedford, Steven M. "John Russell Pope: Architect of Empire." Rizzoli, 1998. The definitive biographical and professional study of John Russell Pope. Standard reference on his life, his practice, and his major projects. Gordon-Reed, Annette. "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family." W. W. Norton, 2008. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. Definitive scholarly work on the Hemings family and Jefferson. Gordon-Reed, Annette and Peter S. Onuf. "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination." Liveright, 2016. Comprehensive Jefferson biography addressing his complete legacy. Post, Robert C. "Constructing Public Space: The Jefferson Memorial and the Politics of American Memory." Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Scholarly analysis of the political and cultural history of the Memorial. Craig, Lois. "The Federal Presence: Architecture, Politics, and Symbols in United States Government Building." MIT Press, 1978. Standard reference on federal architecture including the National Mall monuments. Savage, Kirk. "Monument Wars: Washington DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape." University of California Press, 2009. Analysis of the National Mall including the Jefferson Memorial. Peterson, Merrill D. "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography." Oxford University Press, 1970. Comprehensive Jefferson biography from the pre DNA period. Ellis, Joseph J. "American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson." Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Popular Jefferson biography addressing the complexity of his character. PRIMARY SOURCES AND ARCHIVES John Russell Pope Papers, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. https://library.columbia.edu/librarie... Jefferson Memorial Commission records, National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/ National Park Service Jefferson Memorial archives. https://www.nps.gov/thje/ Thomas Jefferson Foundation archives at Monticello. https://www.monticello.org/
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