National Mall & Monument Grounds, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

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