DC -- Lafayette Square (by White House) area:
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- Description of Pictures: Including the "Black Aggie" statue (the illegal knock-off of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Grieving memorial) which had been at the Druid Ridge Cemetery in Pikesville, MD until it was moved here in 1987.
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- LAFAY_150307_40.JPG: I attended an event once where a woman scolded the person she was being photographed with, scolding him for "spiders". I had no idea what that meant but it meant putting his hand on her shoulder and having the fingers showing like is being done with this statue. The fingers looked like spider legs.
- LAFAY_151110_06.JPG: The Bernard Baruch Bench of Inspiration
dedicated in honor of
Mr. Baruch's 90th birthday -- August 19, 1960
for his inspiring devotion to country and distinguished service to boyhood
By Both The National Capital Area Council and the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scout Motto -- Mr. Baruch's Philosophy
"BE PREPARED"
- LAFAY_151110_26.JPG: Eduard L.A. Pausch (after Augustus Saint-Gaudens) Agnus Memorial (after the Adams Memorial) ca. 1906 - 1907, Transfer to the United States General Services Administration, 1987, from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Gift of Mrs. Felix Agnus Leser.
- LAFAY_151110_70.JPG: Award for Excellence in Architecture
Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade 1969
- LAFAY_151110_86.JPG: On this site stood the principal office of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company founded on March 3, 1865 to receive deposits from former slaves. Frederick Douglass served as its last president. The bank was closed on June 29, 1874. The building was sold in 1882, and razed a few years later.
- AAA "Gem": AAA considers this location to be a "must see" point of interest. To see pictures of other areas that AAA considers to be Gems, click here.
- Wikipedia Description: Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre (30,000 mē) 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.
- Bigger photos? To save server space, the full-sized versions of these images have either not been loaded to the server or have been removed from the server. (Only some pages are loaded with full-sized images and those usually get removed after three months.)
I still have them though. If you want me to email them to you, please send an email to guthrie.bruce@gmail.com
and I can email them to you, or, depending on the number of images, just repost the page again will the full-sized images.
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