October 15, 2007
Dear Coalition Friends:
From the National Park Service:
Please join National Park Service Ranger Eric Martin for a history of the McMillan Commission and the enlightened plan they instituted that brought forth what we recognize today as the National Mall.
All are welcome to attend, government and general public. The Department of the Interior Library is located in the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street, NW, Room 1151 in Washington. Please call the DOI Library at (202) 208-3796 or contact us via e-mail at library@nbc.gov if you have any questions.
Note to our readers: The NPS evidently consulted the Coalition's website in preparing its announcement and liked what it saw of the history written there. Compare these:
Here's the history of the McMillan Plan as told on our website.
In 1901 Senator James McMillan of Michigan organized the Senate Park Commission, better known as the McMillan Commission, to undertake a new plan for the Mall.
The McMillan Plan revived and extended the L'Enfant concept of the Mall as a broad and open vista. The Commissioners, who included renowned City Beautiful architects Charles McKim and Daniel Burnham, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and sculptor Augustus St.-Gaudens, envisioned the Mall as a continuous green park framed by rows of elms and white classical museum buildings.
The kite-shaped McMillan Plan extended the Mall westward and southward over former river beds to form new parkland, Potomac Park, and the sites for the future Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial.
Now, here's the NPS's announcement and description of the McMillan Plan:
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Please join us for the next in our regular monthly series of Department of the Interior Library Park Ranger Speaker Series lectures, "The McMillan Commission and Plan" Tuesday, October 16th from 1:00 - 1:45 pm in the DOI Library.
In 1901 Senator James McMillan of Michigan organized the Senate Park Commission, better known as the McMillan Commission, to undertake a new plan for the National Mall. The McMillan Plan revived and extended Pierre L'Enfant's concept of the Mall as a broad and open vista. The Commissioners, who included renowned architects Charles McKim, Daniel Burnham, and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., envisioned the Mall as a continuous green park framed by rows of elms and white classical museum buildings. The kite-shaped McMillan Plan extended the Mall westward and southward over former river beds to form new parkland, Potomac Park, and the sites for the future Lincoln Memorial and Jefferson Memorial.
Please join National Park Service Ranger Eric Martin for a history of the McMillan Commission and the enlightened plan they instituted that brought forth what we recognize today as the National Mall.
All are welcome to attend, government and general public. The Department of the Interior Library is located in the Main Interior Building, located at 1849 C Street, NW, Room 1151 in Washington. Please call the DOI Library at (202) 208-3796 or contact us via e-mail at library@nbc.gov if you have any questions.
George Franchois
Coordinator of Library Services
U.S. Dept. of the Interior Library
1849 C Street, NW, MS 1151
Washington, DC 20240
george_d_franchois@nbc.gov
Phone: (202) 208-3796
Fax: (202) 208-6773
URL: http://library.doi.gov
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