BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Thomas Jefferson Memorial

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1. JEFF_101223_29.JPG: The weight of history: A $12.4 million construction project on the sea wall at the Jefferson Memorial is underway, scheduled for completion next spring. The old timber piles supporting the sea wall are sunk into muddy soil instead of rock, and the sea wall is sinking. The Sea Wall: Has been supported by timber piles since the memorial was built. The piles will be replaced with concrete caissons and pipes. Reinforcing the Wall: The concrete and granite will be removed, then put back into place exactly as they were, once all of new caissons and pipe piles are in place. Muddy Soil: Workers are testing the consistency of the mud and the nature of the rock underneath in search of solid rock. Workers will sink 18-inch diameter concrete-filled pipe piles, which will become part of the new sea wall system, a National Park Service official says. Workers will sink 41 new 4-foot-diameter concrete caissons through the mud and 10 feet into rock. Supports were added under the plaza in the late 1960s. 1941: Timber piles that support the sea wall protrude from the muddy basin during the construction of the memorial. Decades Later: The sea wall began to sink below the level of the plaza. 2010: Workers have begun dismantling and cataloguing the concrete and granite face of the sea wall.
2. JEFF_101223_35.JPG: The weight of history: A $12.4 million construction project on the sea wall at the Jefferson Memorial is underway, scheduled for completion next spring. The old timber piles supporting the sea wall are sunk into muddy soil instead of rock, and the sea wall is sinking. The Sea Wall: Has been supported by timber piles since the memorial was built. The piles will be replaced with concrete caissons and pipes.
3. JEFF_101223_39.JPG: Reinforcing the Wall: The concrete and granite will be removed, then put back into place exactly as they were, once all of new caissons and pipe piles are in place. Muddy Soil: Workers are testing the consistency of the mud and the nature of the rock underneath in search of solid rock. Workers will sink 18-inch diameter concrete-filled pipe piles, which will become part of the new sea wall system, a National Park Service official says. Workers will sink 41 new 4-foot-diameter concrete caissons through the mud and 10 feet into rock. Supports were added under the plaza in the late 1960s. Note the character at the top. To Scale: Thomas Jefferson -- the person -- stood 6-2. The depth of the pipes is 80 feet.
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Wikipedia Description: Jefferson Memorial
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The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope. It was built by Philadelphia contractor John McShain and was completed in 1943. When completed, the memorial occupied one of the last significant sites left in the city.

Composed of circular marble steps, a portico, a circular colonnade of Ionic order columns, and a shallow dome, the building is open to the elements. Pope made references to the Roman Pantheon and Jefferson's own design for the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. It is situated in West Potomac Park, on the shore of the Tidal Basin of the Potomac River. The Jefferson Memorial and the White House located directly north, form one of the main anchor points in the area of the National Mall in D.C. The Washington Monument just east of the axis on the national Mall was intended to be located at the intersection of the White House and the site for the Jefferson Memorial to the south but soft swampy ground which defied nineteenth century engineering required it be sited to the east. The Jefferson Memorial is managed by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks division.

History:

By 1930, there were monuments in Washington D.C. commemorating great United States presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. President Franklin Roosevelt thought that Thomas Jefferson also deserved a monument. On June 26, 1934, following his initiative, Congress passed a resolution to create a monument commemorating Jefferson.

The memorial was designed by John Russell Pope — also the architect of the original (west) building of the National Gallery of Art. The memorial's design reflects characteristics of buildings designed by Jefferson such as Monticello and the Rotun ...More...
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2010 photos: My office at the main Commerce Department building closed in October and I was shifted out to the Bureau of the Census in Suitland Maryland. It's good to have a job of course but that killed being able to see basically any cultural events during the day. There's basically nothing of interest that you can see around the Census building. Overnight trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Lexington, KY and Nashville, TN), and my 5th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles). Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs until the third one broke and I started sending them back for repairs. Then I used either the Fuji S200EHX or the Nikon D90 until I got the S100fs ones repaired. At the end of the year I bought a Nikon D5000 but I returned it pretty quickly. Number of photos taken this year: about 395,000..
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