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

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1. LAFAY_030514_03.JPG: Marquis de LaFayette's statue. While the park had been dominated by a large statue of Andrew Jackson on his horse, LaFayette, the Revolutionary War hero, made a triumphant return visit to the United States in 1824. The park was renamed after him as a result of this visit.
2. LAFAY_030514_20.JPG: This is Cutts-Madison House. The house was constructed in 1820 and served as Dolley Madison's house until 1849. During the Civil War, it is thought that George McClellan made his headquarters here and it was here on the night of September 2, 1861 that Lincoln came to visit to discuss the war. McClellan kept the President waiting and then retired for bed without bothering to see him. Later, the house was the site of the all-men's Cosmos Club as well as an early headquarters for NASA.
3. LAFAY_030514_23.JPG: This is Thadeus Kosciuszko, another hero of the American Revolution who helped with the defenses of Saratoga and West Point New York.
4. LAFAY_030514_34.JPG: Prussian general Frederick Von Steuben, who helped George Washington's troops during the long winter at Valley Forge.
5. LAFAY_030514_40.JPG: Comte Jean de Rochambeau, head of the French Expeditionary Force during the American Revolution.
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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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