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	National Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Mall refers specifically to the land stretching from the grounds of the Washington Monument to the United States Capitol directly to the east.
		The National Mall is accessible via Washington Metro, with the Smithsonian station located on the south side of the mall, near the Washington Monument.
		The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Mall (841 words)

	National Mall & Memorial Parks (National Park Service)
		The National Mall is the continuation of that space where congressionally authorized park icons, such as the Washington Monument, WWII and Lincoln Memorials stand.
		The sprawling lands of the National Mall & Memorial Parks include the Mall, the public promenade extending from 3rd Street near the Capitol to 14th Street.
		Ford’s Theatre, The House where Lincoln died, Potomac Park, Hains Point and Pennsylvania Avenue NHS are also among the park managed areas that constitute National Mall & Memorial Parks.
	www.nps.gov /nama (151 words)

	The National Mall
		The Mall is located in the area encompassed by Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, NW on the north, First Street on the east, Independence and Maryland Avenues on the south, and 14th Street on the west.
		The Mall was to be the foremost avenue of the city, the so-called "Grand Avenue." It was to run west from the Capitol to a point directly south of the President's House where its terminus would be crowned by an equestrian statue of George Washington.
		The core of the Mall was to be a broad grass carpet, typical of those in Europe, 300' in breath and running the entire length of the Mall grounds, bordered on each side by four rows of American elm trees.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/wash/dc70.htm (1216 words)

	National Geographic: Washington Walking Tour--Maps, Photos
		The National Mall stands at the heart of monumental Washington, embodying the ideals of democracy in its gleaming white marble edifices, pools, fountains, and perfect greenswards.
		Besides its eight Mall museums (and the Castle), the institution manages two museums in New York, an astrophysical observatory in Massachusetts, numerous scientific research centers throughout the world, and five other sites in D.C.—the National Portrait Gallery, the adjoining National Museum of American Art, the Renwick Gallery, the Anacostia Museum, and the National Zoological Park.
		This recent addition to the Mall was conceived to perpetuate the memory of the victims of the World War II Holocaust.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /walkingtours/Washington_DC_Walking_Tour (3429 words)

	National Air and Space Museum National Mall Building
		The National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. has hundreds of original, historic artifacts on display, including the Wright 1903 Flyer; the Spirit of St. Louis; the Apollo 11 command module Columbia; and a Lunar rock sample that visitors can touch.
		Begin planning your visit to the Museum on the National Mall, or learn about the National Air and Space Museumâs two other sites by selecting from the menu on the left.
		National Air and Space Museum National Mall Building
	www.nasm.si.edu /museum/flagship.cfm (696 words)

	The Mall, Washington, D.C.
		The Mall, Washington, D.C. The story of the Mall is the development of a particular space at the symbolic and economic center of the nation's capital.
		The naturalistic, picturesque gardens planted on the Mall in the latter half of the nineteenth century were meant to affirm the refinement of slaveholding society and to offer a pastoral retreat from the "wilderness of bricks."
		As John Kasson has noted, the naturalistic retreat (like Central Park, or Downing's Mall) and the grand, geometric Beaux Arts design characteristic of turn-of-the-century urban planning (White City at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, or the 1901 McMillan Plan for D.C.) both offered critiques of city life.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/MALL/home1.html (356 words)

	National Mall - Hall of Shame Project for Public Spaces (PPS)
		And the Mall itself is sorely lacking in basic amenities, such as benches or other places to sit, that would encourage tourists, government workers, and residents to spend time in a place that ought to be enjoyed as a national treasure.
		By virtue of its proximity to the nation's most prestigious cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History, and National Gallery of Art, the Mall is a part of most people's visits to the capitol.
		The Mall has evolved from its early beaux-arts beginnings to its current simplistic, yet refined form according to the needs, and desires of the City which surrounds it and the Country which it symbolizes, let's not be so quick to judge it's value by it's spartan appearance.
	www.pps.org /gps/one?public_place_id=757 (736 words)

	USATODAY.com - National Mall is jam-packed and losing its majestic image
		The newly opened National Museum of the American Indian in Washington was supposed to be the last building constructed on the National Mall.
		Constant throughout centuries of change has been the provision that the Mall be used for public gatherings and national celebrations — for the Mall is the people's park, an expanse representing the openness and the optimism of our democracy.
		The sponsors of the National Museum of African American History and Culture make the persuasive argument that an institution devoted to our nation's long, troubled history of slavery and oppression is deserving of prime real estate on the Mall.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/2004-10-13-national-mall_x.htm (908 words)

	Kid's Club: Tattie's Travels--National Mall
		Mall Concerts: Every year on the Fourth of July and on Memorial Day, the National Mall is the home of a concert to celebrate America’s Birthday and to remember War Veterans.
		The National Mall is full of many natural aspects, it includes 2000 American elms trees, 3000 Japanese Cherry trees, over 170 flower beds, and 35 fountains and pools.
		When Tattie and I had our walk through the National Mall we started at the Capital Building, went to the Smithsonian Museums, past the Washington Monument, down to the Lincoln Memorial, and then back to the National Air and Space Museum.
	www.senate.gov /~craig/kidsclub/trav_nm.htm (666 words)

	National Mall & Memorial Parks
		National Mall and Memorial Parks (NAMA) is responsible for over 1,000 acres of the most significant natural and cultural resources in the United States.
		The sites of National Mall and Memorial Parks are a testament to America's past and present where the values of our nation and are presented in a masterful blending of formal history and tradition and informal contemporary life.
		Park resources include the 2,000 American elms which line the Mall and the 3,000 internationally-renowned Japanese cherry trees which grace the Tidal Basin.
	www.nps.gov /nama/home.htm (427 words)

	Group has plan to enliven National Mall - U.S. News - MSNBC.com
		An image released by the National Mall Conservancy shows the 1791 L'Enfant Plan that laid out the Nation's Capital and envisioned the Mall as "a place of general resort... (and) all sort of place(s) as may be attractive to the learned and afford diversion to the idle.”
		She says the Mall is animated largely by tourists carried by bus from museum to museum along its margin.
		The Mall should be, L’Enfant wrote, a “place of general resort” lined by theaters, assembly halls, academies and “all sort of place(s) as may be attractive to the learned and afford diversion to the idle.”
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6679560/from/RL.1 (712 words)

	The Mess on the Mall
		To be an American family in such a situation--on your first trip to the national mall, where (your textbooks taught you) those monuments of creamy marble rest among vast squares of green, set nobly along America's grandest promenade--is to be primed for indignities, one after another.
		Yet no one on the National Capital Planning Commission or the Commission of Fine Arts--two of the kibitzing bodies responsible for approving new construction on the mall--quite had the nerve to abandon classicism altogether.
		The first building constructed on the mall after John Russell Pope's neoclassical National Gallery (1941) was the Museum of American History (1964), followed by the Museum of Air and Space (1976).
	www.hnn.us /articles/14261.html (5216 words)

	Explore DC: National Mall
		Journalist Bruce Morton called the Mall our "national conscience." And so it is, welcoming citizens of all political persuasions to manifest their views before the government and the people.
		By the turn of the century much land had been reclaimed, yet around the Smithsonian Castle the Mall remained a series of meandering walks; a train station stood where the National Gallery of Art is today, and the western edges were undeveloped.
		Today plans are in place for perhaps the last museum on the Mall, the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, scheduled for opening in 2002.
	www.exploredc.org /index.php?id=158 (519 words)

	National Gallery of Art - Planning a Visit
		The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall at 7th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., is bounded by Constitution Avenue and Madison Drive, and 7th and 9th Streets, N.W. See also area map, location, and hours.
		The National Gallery of Art, located on the National Mall between Third and Seventh Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW, is open Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m.
		The title of the exhibition was taken from Talbot's description of the process, which he called "the art of fixing a shadow".
	www.nga.gov /ginfo/index.shtm#hours (344 words)

	Category:National Mall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main article for this category is National Mall.
		National Museum of African American History and Culture
		Landmarks in Washington, D.C. National parks in Washington, DC
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:National_Mall (72 words)

	National Air and Space Museum - Planning Your Visit
		There is always something new to enjoy at the National Air and Space Museum, now with two locations: the National Mall building in downtown Washington, DC and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles International Airport.
		The menu at left will take you to general visitor planning information for both the National Mall museum and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
		The National Air and Space Museum Express shuttle bus provides transportation between the two facilities.
	www.nasm.si.edu /visit (539 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Group wants to bring National Mall to life
		WASHINGTON -- There's a lot happening on the National Mall, but a preservation group believes not enough of the activities allow the public to enjoy the tract stretching from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.
		She said the Mall is animated largely by tourists bused from museum to museum along its margin.
		The Mall should be a "place of general resort" lined by theaters, assembly halls, academies and "all sort of place[s] as may be attractive to the learned and afford diversion to the idle."
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2004/12/09/group_wants_to_bring_national_mall_to_life (545 words)

	National Mall and Memorial Parks
		National Mall is the public promenade extending from 3rd Street near the Capitol to 14th Street.
		Location: The National Mall and Memorial Parks are located in Washington, DC.
		The sites of NMMP are cherished symbols of our nation, known worldwide and depicted on everything from currency to the nightly news.
	www.bridgingthewatershed.org /national_mall.html (217 words)

	National Coalition to Save Our Mall - The Mall Today
		The National Mall in Washington, D.C. — the 2-mile-long expanse of National Park extending from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and from the White House to the Jefferson Memorial -- is a unique symbol of our American democracy and a national gathering place for civic celebrations and demonstrations.
		FIGURE 1: The National Mall in the 1980s
		• The Mall as Public Forum in the Twentieth Century
	www.savethemall.org /mall/resource-hist01.html (187 words)

	Mall's Finite Space Holds Infinite Dreams (washingtonpost.com)
		A Sept. 15 article incorrectly said that two new memorials on the Mall were approved after the National Capital Planning Commission called in 2001 for a "Reserve" area including the Mall to be off-limits to new construction.
		The Mall -- where throngs gather for the Fourth of July and the multitude of marches -- is a long rectangle with the Capitol at one end, the Lincoln Memorial at the other, and the Washington Monument in the middle.
		Washington's Mall is lined by venerated government buildings and museums, including four of the busiest in the world.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A21703-2004Sep14.html (938 words)

	The National Mall: far more than grass, flowers and trees - baltimoresun.com
		At first glance, the National Mall appears to be only the sum of its physical attributes: a vast expanse of grass growing among monuments and museums.
		The mall once more became a makeshift military camp during World War I, but military operations ceased there at the end of the war, and the National Park Service was given jurisdiction over the mall in 1933.
		The monuments that line the mall, bounded by Constitution and Pennsylvania avenue Northwest on the north, First Street on the east, Independence and Maryland avenues on the south and 14th Street on the west, are easily taken at face value.
	www.baltimoresun.com /features/bal-li.trips20nov20,0,6267366.story (985 words)

	Learn more about National Gallery of Art in the online encyclopedia.
		It is located in the "National Mall" in Washington, D.C.
		The National Gallery of Art is the United States of America's national art gallery.
		Learn more about National Gallery of Art in the online encyclopedia.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /n/na/national_gallery_of_art.html (207 words)

	Senate to consider National Mall
		The future of the National Mall, home to some of the country’s most prominent museums and monuments, will be the topic of discussion at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing this afternoon.
		John Parsons, associate regional director for lands, resources and planning for the National Park Service’s National Capital Region, defined the Mall as the area between the White House and the Jefferson Memorial and between the Lincoln Memorial and the Capitol.
		One of the new challenges for the 21st century Mall planners is striking a balance between public access to and security measures around the cherished memorials.
	www.thehill.com /thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/041205/mall.html (869 words)

	When Hookers Roamed the National Mall
		The National Mall is the great green swath that stretches more than two miles from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol.
		Only recently, however, has the Mall approached sacrosanct status, perhaps because there is increasingly less of it that is open, with space being devoted to the new American Indian museum, the World War II memorial and planned additions to the Washington Monument and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
		In creating the Mall, the capital might have had a vision of green open space, but it had the more practical goal of filling in a pestilential tidal swamp that regularly flooded.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=21&num=3119&printer=1 (767 words)

	National Mall on Encyclopedia.com
		A third century mall: a visionary plan would expand the National Mall while preserving its original intent.
		National firms might take malls in different directions: Glendale to add movie screens, bookstore.
		The battle for America's front yard: debate over the new World War II Memorial isn't the first to embroil the National Mall.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/X/X-N1atlM1all.asp (257 words)

	Smithsonian Festival Brings World to U.S. National Mall
		The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is being held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. from June 25 to July 6.
		Festivities began at the National Mall, between the U.S. Capitol and the Washington Monument, on Wednesday, June 25, and will conclude on Sunday, July 6.
		While all dues support National Geographic's mission of expanding geographic knowledge, 90 percent is designated for the magazine subscription, and no portion should be considered a charitable contribution.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2003/07/0703_030703_folklifefestival.html (705 words)

	National Mall full. MetaFilter
		September 15, 2004 4:27 PM With the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in DC next week, the National Mall is now officially full, the usable space intended for museums, monuments and other important national sites have been taken.
		Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, John V. Cogbill III, tells the post that the Mall is "[d]one.
		It was "done" before they built the WWII memorial, which I think has spoiled The Mall.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/35617 (429 words)

	CNN.com - Report: National Mall security lax on 9/11 anniversary - Jan. 14, 2004
		In the report, the inspector general's office said that it conducted undercover surveillance of the National Mall to check on security measures.
		On the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks, investigators found "persistent and severe" security deficiencies throughout the National Mall, a report concludes.
		The undercover checks followed an earlier inspector general's report highly critical of security at the Washington Monument, Statue of Liberty and other American icons under the domain of the National Park Service.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/01/13/security.report (700 words)

	National Mall
		The Mall is an ideal forum for national expressions of grief, remembrance, and protest.
		The National Mall was imagined by Pierre L’Enfant as part of the plans for Washington, DC.
		By combining the majesty of the numerous monuments and the varieties of trees and flowers, the National Mall has become one of the most visited and photographed places in the world.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/2274/places/31145 (257 words)

	National Gallery of Art - Ice-Skating Rink
		The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden ice-skating rink is closed for the season.
		The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden ice-skating rink is open mid-November through mid-March, weather permitting.
		Access to the rink and Pavilion Café during these times is restricted to the Constitution Avenue and Madison Drive entrances at Ninth Street.
	www.nga.gov /ginfo/skating.htm (149 words)

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