On Nov. 15, 1939, President Roosevelt laid the cornerstone, which included copies of: The National Park Service (NPS) ...

The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Thomas Jefferson , one of the most important of the American Founding Fathers as the main drafter and ...

She urged the sale of Monticello to the federal government. In 1923, the newly organized Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, a private entity, bought the property. In the mid-1980s, it created a ...

AT LAST CHECK. SO THE CHOIR MEMBERS HERE AT THE SCHOOL TELL ME THEY DECIDED LAST SECOND TO START SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT THE THOMAS JEFFERSON MEMORIAL. AND THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS COMING ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... He inspired the most beautiful memorial in Washington. He was long a symbol of education, culture, constitutional constructionism and the separation ...

In 2006, the 79-year-old memorial’s white dome started getting covered in dark splotches and water began to infiltrate the portico roof. Years of research determined the building’s marble had ...

During the walk, you'll get your cherry blossom fix while viewing monuments including the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial.