BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Lafayette Square (by White House) area

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1. LAFAY_021003_03.JPG: This is the statue of Marquis de Lafayette in Lafayette Park, directly across from the White House. During the Cold War, Soviet diplomats used to chat on the park benches in the park and the FBI would (illegally) record them.
2. LAFAY_021003_08.JPG: This statue of Andrew Jackson was installed in 1853 to honor his role in the Battle of New Orleans. At the time it was erected, the sculptor, Clark Mills, accomplished a minor sculptural miracle. He achieved world renown by balancing the entire weight of the statue on just the back legs of the horse.
3. LAFAY_021003_19.JPG: Comte Jean de Rochambeau, also in Lafayette Park
4. LAFAY_021003_21.JPG: The Blair House was built in 1824 by Joseph Lovell, the nation's first Surgeon General. In 1861, Francis Blair met here with Robert E Lee to offer him command of the federal armies but Lee refused, and then sided with the Confederacy. In 1942, the house was purchased by the federal government and was used to house visiting dignitaries. In 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists tried to kill Harry Truman who was staying here when the White House was being redone. A month before he was assassinated, I saw Anwar Sadat coming out of this house.
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Wikipedia Description: Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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Lafayette Square is a seven-acre (30,000 m�) public park located within President's Park, Washington, D.C. directly north of the White House on H Street, bounded by Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east, and Pennsylvania Avenue. The square and the surrounding structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970.

History

Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion, this square was originally called "President's Park", which is now the name of the larger National Park Service unit. The park was separated from the White House grounds in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through. In 1824, the park was officially renamed in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the Frenchman who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812, and many political protests and celebrations. Andrew Jackson Downing landscaped Lafayette Square in 1851 in the picturesque style.

Today's plan, with its five large statues, dates from the 1930s. In the center stands Clark Mills' equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson, erected in 1853. In the four corners are statues of foreign Revolutionary War heroes: Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette and Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau of France, Brigadier General Thaddeus Kosciuszko of Poland, and Major General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben of Prussia.

Thomas and Concepcion Picciotto are founders of the White House Peace Vigil, the longest running anti-nuclear peace vigil in US history, at Lafayette Square.
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2002 photos: Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints. Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day. Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south. This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free!
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