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AERIAL VIEW OF THE MALL, LOOKING WEST FROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT FROM ABOVE THIRD STREET, NE. - National Mall and Monument Grounds, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
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AERIAL VIEW OF THE MALL, LOOKING WEST FROM THE CAPITOL TO THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT FROM ABOVE THIRD STREET, NE. - National Mall and Monument Grounds, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
Depicted place District of Columbia; District of Columbia; Washington
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
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HABS DC,WASH,615-1
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  • See also HALS Nos. DC-6, -7, and -9 for related documentation.
  • Significance: Planned by Pierre L'Enfant according to Baroque city planning traditions and redesigned by the 1901 Senate Park Commission in the style of the City Beautiful, the Mall forms the city's cultural and political core. Significant as a large recreational space lined with museums, the Mall also serves symbolic functions, spatially ordering the nation's most important buildings and monuments. Its main east-west axis visually connects the Washington Monument and the Capitol; the vista extends west on this axis beyond the obelisk to the Lincoln Memorial in West Potomac Park (See HABS No. DC-693). A secondary north-south perpendicular axis intersects the Mall between 15th and 17th Streets and visually connects the White House, Washington Monument, and Jefferson Memorial.
  • Survey number: HABS DC-678
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/dc0787.photos.042661p
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Object location38° 53′ 42″ N, 77° 02′ 12.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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