DC -- Federal Triangle -- Natl Archives -- Exterior:
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- ARCH_150617_13.JPG: In September 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called his friend, Supreme Court Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, to the White House and asked the justice to remember the wish he then expressed:
"If any memorial is erected to me, I know exactly what I should like it to be. I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this (putting his hand on his desk) and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives building. I don't care what it is made of, whether limestone or granite or whatnot, but I want it plain, without any ornamentation, with the simple carving, 'In memory of ____' ".
A small group of living associates of the President, on April 12, 1965, the twentieth anniversary of his death, fulfilled his wish by providing and dedicating this modest memorial.
- ARCH_150624_01.JPG: Market Space: Yesterday's Town Square
Civil War to Civil Rights
-- Downtown Heritage Trail --
"Hay for the horses, produce for the table, live chickens for the pot, and a hat for your head."
All this and more could be had right here during the Civil War. The triangular area just ahead to your left was called Major Space. The city's sprawling City Market stood just to your left, where the National Archives is today.
The jumbled haymarket, indispensable in a world of horse-drawn vehicles, was just west of the City Market on Ninth Street. Up and down Pennsylvania Avenue a shopper could find clothing and other necessities in the little stores nestled between the city's most popular boarding houses and hotels.
This area was the heart of 19th Century Washington. Seventh Street was the main route for farmers traveling to and from the city with their produce. During the Civil War, it was a strategic route for soldiers traveling to some of the 68 forts that surrounded the city. Pennsylvania Avenue linked the White House and the Capitol. For more than a century, the place where these streets crossed would be the city's town square.
- ARCH_150624_04.JPG: The haymarket as it looked at the time of the Civil War (Historical Society of Washington, D.C.)
- ARCH_150624_07.JPG: Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and his wife shop for fresh produce at Center Market in 1935
- ARCH_150624_09.JPG: The sprawling Center Market, 1914
- ARCH_150624_12.JPG: A vendor at Center Market, about 1890
- ARCH_150624_24.JPG: Clerks await customers at the bakery stall in Center Market, about 1915. The massive market once stood to the left [sic], where the National Archives is today.
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