National Mall

National Mall
National Register of Historic Places
Historic District
The National Mall on 20 January 1993 at the inauguration of Bill Clinton
location	Washington, DC
Coordinates	38 ° 53 '24 "  N , 77 ° 1' 25"  W Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '24 "  N , 77 ° 1' 25"  W.
NRHP number	66000031
Data
The NRHP added	October 15, 1966
Declared as  HD	October 15, 1966

View from the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall with Washington Monument

The National Mall (also The Mall , dt. National promenade ) between the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial is part of the National Parks National Mall & Memorial Parks in the center of Washington, DC , the capital of the United States .

The mall is bounded clockwise from the north by Constitution Avenue , Pennsylvania Avenue , 1st Street, Maryland Avenue , Independence Avenue, and 14th Street; it is approx. 4.8 km long and 500 m wide. Jefferson Drive and Madison Drive run parallel lengthways, 3rd, 4th and 7th Streets across the park, while 9th and 12th Streets tunnel under it .

In addition to the Lincoln Memorial, the magnificent avenue also houses the Vietnam Veterans -, the National World War II -, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National - and the Korean War Veterans Memorial .

The US seat of government, the White House, borders the National Mall with its garden and front yard. From the Washington Monument you have a good view of the official residence of the US President ; The German-American Friendship Garden is on this line of sight . There are also various museums along the long avenue of Park, nine of the fourteen Smithsonian museums alone , including the National Air and Space Museum and the National Gallery of Art .

On October 15, 1966, the National Mall was registered as a Historic District ("Historic District") in the National Register of Historic Places ("National Register of Historic Places ").

Place of protests and major events

The National Mall was and is used again and again for the parade of partly historical mass rallies and for other major events:

• In 1913 one of the “ Suffrage Hikes ” ( “ Suffrage marches ”) to raise awareness among the American public for the demand for full women's suffrage in all states of the USA ended here .
• On August 28, 1963 , about 250,000 people gathered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom .
• On November 15, 1969, the largest protest action against the Vietnam War took place in Washington with about half a million participants ( see war opposition in the USA ).
• The March for Life ("March for Life") is an annual demonstration of the " rights to life movement " held in Washington since 1974 .
• On October 14, 1979 , the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights took place in Washington with over 100,000 participants.
• The " Million Man March " ( English Million Man March ), a mass meeting of African-American men with estimated between 500,000 and one million participants took place here on 16 October 1995: He served an appeal to the unification of blacks in the United States and of their moral values.
• In July 2007 one of the Live Earth concerts took place here.
• On January 20, 2009, around two million people gathered on the occasion of the inauguration of US President Barack Obama .
• On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as US President, over half a million people (700,000 according to organizers) gathered for the Women's March on Washington to demonstrate against Trump and his presidency .
• On March 24, 2018, the March for our lives on Pennsylvania Avenue , a parallel street also leading to the Capitol , took part in the March for our lives . the National Mall. around 800,000 people took part. This was a high point of the protests for stricter gun laws and against the role of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in the USA (-> Never Again MSD ), which started after the school massacre in Parkland ( Florida ).

Landmarks on the National Mall

The National Mall between Washington Monument and the Capitol.
(The numbers in the illustration correspond to the numbers in the list of attractions below.)

1. Washington Monument 2. National Museum of American History 3. National Museum of Natural History 4. National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden 5. West Building of the National Gallery of Art 6. East Building of the National Gallery of Art

7. Capitol 8. Capitol Reflecting Pool with Ulysses S. Grant Memorial 9. United States Botanic Garden 10. National Museum of the American Indian 11. National Air and Space Museum 12. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

13. Arts and Industries Building 14. Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle") 15. Freer Gallery of Art 16. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 17. National Museum of African Art

Movies

• Museums of the World: The Mall in Washington. A production by Saarländischen Rundfunks / Fernsehen , 1982.
  Three-part documentation: 1) Donors and taxes ; 2) researchers and festivals ; 3) Essence and recognition , 45 'each. Script and direction: Klaus Peter Dencker
• Museums of the world. The mall live. A production of the Saarländischer Rundfunk / Fernsehen, 1982, 45´. Script and direction as before

literature

• Kirk Savage: Monument Wars: Washington, DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial Landscape. University of California Press, Berkeley 2011, ISBN 978-0-520-27133-3 .

Web links

Commons : National Mall  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• dcpages.ari.net: Virtual tour of the mall ( Memento from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• nps.gov: Website of the National Park Service (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ focus.nps.gov: National Mall ; National Park Service , National Register Information System , accessed August 4, 2017
2. ↑ As in the Vietnam War , Spiegel Online, March 24, 2018