L’Enfant Plan 1791

Versailles

Mall as designed by L’Enfant

Andrew Jackson Downing, Plan Showing Proposed Method of Laying Out the Public Grounds at Washington

. An 1867 manuscript copy of Downing's

1851 original plan

Area Improvements in latter 19th C.

Mall/Heart 0f Washington1892

Sewers Laid by Board of Public Works include Constitution Avenue

The Mall areas around the time the McMillan Plan was Created

World’s Columbian Exposition 1893

View from the Capitol 1867

View from the Capitol McMillan Comm. Plan 1901-2

Bird’s Eye View of Senate Park Plan 1901-2

Realizing the Senate Park Plan

1925

1957

C 1980

The Parts Have Different Functions

Lincoln Memorial’s in Civil Rights Movement

 President Truman addresses N.A.A.C.P. from a rostrum on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the 38th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, June 29, 1947.

View of some 27,000 persons from 36 states who attended May 17 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in 1957

Roy Wilkins with a few of the 250,000 participants on the Mall heading for the Lincoln Memorial in the NAACP march on Washington on August 28, 1963