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1. SIHG_040627_091.JPG: Andrew Jackson Downing Urn Designed in honor of Andrew Jackson Downing by Calvert Veux, Downing's architectural partner, 1856 Carrara marble urn * American marble base and pedestal In 1850, Andrew Jackson Downing transformed the Mall into the nation's first landscaped public park using informal, romantic arrangements of circular carriage drives and plantings of rare American trees. Downing's design endured until 1934, when the Mall was restored to Pierre L'Enfant's 1791 plan. Downing (1815-52), the father of American landscape architecture, also designed the White House and Capitol grounds. The memorial urn stood on the Mall near the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for 109 years (1856-1965). In 1972, it was restored and placed on the lawn east of the Smithsonian Building ("Castle") flag tower. In 1987, it was relocated to the Rose Garden at the Castle's east door. The urn was moved to its location in the Enid A. Haupt Garden in 1989.
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Wikipedia Description: Enid A. Haupt Garden
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The Enid A. Haupt Garden is a 4.2 acre public garden in the Smithsonian complex, adjacent to the Smithsonian Castle on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It was designed to be a modern representation of American Victorian gardens as they appeared in the mid to late 19th century. It replaced an existing Victorian Garden which had been built to celebrate the nation's Bicentennial in 1976.

History

The garden opened on May 21, 1987 as part of the redesigned Castle quadrangle. It is named for Enid A. Haupt, who provided the $3 million endowment which financed its construction and maintenance. Initially approached with a request that she finance a small Zen garden within the quadrangle, after a review of the plans Haupt said that she was "not interested in putting money into a Zen garden...I'm only interested in financing the whole thing."

The quadrangle redesign project and the Smithsonian Gardens more broadly were part of the vision of the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian, S. Dillon Ripley, who felt that the museum experience should extend beyond the museums' buildings into the outdoor spaces.

The landscape design of the Garden featured the collaborative efforts of architect Jean Paul Carlhian, principal in the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott; Lester Collins, a landscape architect from Millbrook, New York; Sasaki Associates Inc. of Watertown, Massachusetts; and James R. Buckler, founding director of the Smithsonian's Office of Horticulture.

The central feature of the garden is a symmetrically patterned parterre, flanked by the Moongate Garden to the west and the Fountain Garden to the east. The parterre measures 144 feet long by 66 feet wide; the low-growing plants that fill out the series of diamonds, fleurs-de-lis, and scallops or swags that make up the design are changed every six months, typically in September and May.

Other notable design features include ...More...
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