Franklin Delano Roosevelt Monument, National Archives, Corner of 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Monument, National Archives, Corner of 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Federal Triangle, Washington, DC, 2008.“If any memorial is erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be. I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this (putting his hand on his desk) and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives Building. I don’t care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain without any ornamentation, with the simple carving, ‘In Memory of ____’.”A small group of living associates of the President, on April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, fulfilled his wish by providing and dedicating this modest memorial.” Wikipedia.Later the landscape architect Lawrence Halprin designed the rather vulgar mini-theme park, complete to a bronze statue of Roosevelt in a wheelchair, on the spit of land between the Tidal Basin and the Potomac River built as a memorial to Franklin Roosevelt. I prefer this one which adheres to Roosevelt’s wishes and is powerful in its simple dignity. -- source link
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