The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is
a presidential
memorial in Washington,
D.C. dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American
Founding Father and the third President of
the United States. The neoclassical
building was designed by the architect John Russell Pope and
built by the Philadelphia
contractor John McShain.
Construction began on December
15, 1938 and the cornerstone
was laid on November 15, 1939, by president Franklin Roosevelt. By this point
Pope had died (1937) and his surviving partners, Daniel P. Higgins and Otto R. Eggers,
took over construction of the memorial. The design was modified at the request
of the Commission of Fine Arts to a more conservative design.
Construction commenced amid
significant opposition. The Commission of Fine Arts never actually approved any
design for the Memorial and even published a pamphlet in 1939 opposing both the
design and site of the Memorial.
The Jefferson Memorial was
officially dedicated by President Roosevelt on April 13, 1943, the 200th
anniversary of Jefferson's birthday. At that time, Evans' statue had not yet
been finished. Due to material shortages during World War II, the statue
that was installed at the time was a plaster cast of Evans' work painted to
look like bronze. The finished bronze
statue was installed in 1947, having been cast by the Roman Bronze Company of
New York.
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