Looking east from the Washington Monument, down the National Mall toward the U.S. Capitol past a parade of national museums in Washington, D.C.

ID: 2693 ~ Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA ~ Creator: Carol M. Highsmith ~ Date: [between 1980 and 2006]
This file appears in: National Mall Historic District
Looking east from the Washington Monument, down the National Mall toward the U.S. Capitol past a parade of national museums in Washington, D.C.
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This file appears in: National Mall Historic District

The development of the National Mall Historic District reflects two seminal historic plans for the federal city: the plan designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant in 1791 and the 1901-1902 McMillan (Senate Park) Commission Plan. As such, the Mall…