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- STRAUS_050901_11.JPG: The fountain here has the following marking:
This monument was erected by public subscription in accordance with the joint resolution of Congress of December 15, 1927, signed by President Coolidge March 2, 1929 in memory of Oscar S. Straus (1850-1926).
Author: "Origin of Republican Form of Government" 1885, "Roger Williams -- Pioneer of Religious Liberty" 1894, "Under Four Administrations" 1922.
Diplomat: Minister to Turkey 1887-1888 1898-1900, Ambassador to Turkey 1909-1910.
Statesman: Secretary of Commerce and Labor 1906-1909, member of the Hague Court of Arbitration 1902-1926.
The fountain was dedicated in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. The piece was disassembled and placed in storage in 1991 for the construction of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Relocated, conserved and reinstalled with all original materials, except for the replacement of round river rock paving on the upper terrace with square setts [sic] of Polychrome granite. It was rededicated in 1998.
- Wikipedia Description: Oscar Straus Memorial
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Oscar S. Straus Memorial in Washington, D.C., commemorates the accomplishments of the first Jew to serve in the cabinet of a U.S. president. Oscar Solomon Straus was Secretary of Commerce and Labor under President Theodore Roosevelt from 1906 to 1909. The memorial is a marble fountain located in the Federal Triangle on 14th Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Constitution Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.. It is located in front of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
The fountain was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman, funded with a public subscription beginning in 1929, and dedicated on October 26, 1947. In the center of the memorial is the massive fountain with the inscription "statesman, author, diplomat" and to each side are two groups of statues, one called Justice (to symbolize the religious freedom which allowed a Jew to serve in such a position of authority) and the other Reason (to symbolize the capitalism and labor efforts put forth by Straus).
It was rededicated on October 26, 1998.
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