2024年3月15日 · Thomas Jefferson was a passionate student of architecture, and elements of his influential designs appear in the memorial. "A Shrine to Freedom" A timeline and photographs show how 75 years ago plans to memorialize America's third president were realized.

2018年10月2日 · The Jefferson Memorial is a unit of National Mall and Memorial Parks. From within the circular colonnade, a 19 foot tall statue of Thomas Jefferson stands holding the Declaration of Independence and peering out to the Tidal Basin.

2021年3月29日 · Rudulph Evans' bronze statue of Jefferson stands centered in the chamber on a black Minnesota granite pedestal, which is inscribed with the dates of Jefferson's birth and death (1743-1826). The statue depicts Jefferson in mid-life, holding the …

2022年8月30日 · Founding Father... Revolutionary... Renaissance Man. Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence, first Secretary of State for the United States of America, and a complex, 19th-century man with a wide ranging impact on the very makeup of America itself.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, Secretary of State in George Washington's cabinet, and the author of the Declaration of Independence. Begun as a New Deal construction project, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial was completed in 1943.

2017年2月27日 · The sites of National Mall and Memorial Parks (other than the Washington Monument) are always open to the public. Restrooms, museums and elevators close in the evenings (check individual sites for hours)

April 13, 1943: The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated on Jefferson's 200th birthday. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt presided over the ceremony.

And the dedication of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on April 13, 1943 was no different. Scheduled on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson’s birth, the dedication of his memorial was the culmination of nearly a decade of planning and construction.

2023年3月1日 · Thomas Jefferson Memorial . NPS/Nathan King. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Inscriptions: Rotunda "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."-Excerpted from a letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800. Southwest Portico

2016年3月5日 · The Jefferson Memorial is a unit of National Mall and Memorial Parks. From within the circular colonnade, a 19 foot tall statue of Thomas Jefferson stands holding the Declaration of Independence and peering out to the Tidal Basin.