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Photo, Print, Drawing Pershing Park, Bounded on the north and south by Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on the east by 14th Street NW, and on the west by 15th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC National Mall & Memorial Parks U.S. Reservation 617 Square 226 National World War I Memorial

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Title

  • Pershing Park, Bounded on the north and south by Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on the east by 14th Street NW, and on the west by 15th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Other Title

  • National Mall & Memorial Parks U.S. Reservation 617 Square 226 National World War I Memorial

Names

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
  • Friedberg, M. Paul
  • Harrison, Wallace K.
  • White, Robert W.
  • Oehme, van Sweden & Associates
  • Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC)
  • Pershing, John J. "Black Jack"
  • U.S. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
  • M. Paul Friedberg and Partners
  • Harrison & Abramovitz
  • Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.
  • Gipe Associates
  • Grenald, Raymond
  • Rink Design Consultants, Inc.
  • Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton/E.W. Finley,P.C.
  • Wilbur Smith and Associates
  • Sasaki Associates, Inc.
  • Gilbane Building Company
  • Paul R. Jackson Construction Company
  • L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
  • Ellicott, Andrew
  • Byrnes, David
  • Washington Light Infantry
  • Albaugh Opera House
  • 1902 McMillan Commission
  • U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA)
  • Willard Hotel
  • Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury
  • Board of Architectural Consultants
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS)
  • U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)
  • U.S. National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
  • Jerome Lindsey Associates
  • Stone, Edward Durrell, Jr.
  • Ghiglieri, Lorenzo E.
  • Bex, Brian
  • American Communications Network
  • National Wildlife Federation
  • Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
  • Johnson, Lyndon Baines
  • American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
  • Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
  • President's Council on Pennsylvania Avenue
  • Committee for a More Beautiful Capital
  • Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Region (NCR), Beautification Task Force
  • The Pennsylvania Avenue Plan (The 1974 Plan)
  • Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  • Lickwar, Phoebe
  • World War I Memorial Commission
  • The Cultural Landscape Foundation
  • Birnbaum, Charles
  • Weishaar, Joseph
  • Howard, Sabin
  • Grunley Construction Company
  • National Mall and Memorial Parks, sponsor
  • Stevens, Christopher M., project manager
  • McNatt, Jason W., delineator
  • Pierce, Ryan, field team
  • Stevens, Christopher M., project manager
  • Christianson, Justine, editor
  • Kerr, Tim, historian
  • Knott, Laura, historian
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter
  • Stranieri, Marcella, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 2000

Headings

  • -  parks
  • -  urban parks
  • -  park systems
  • -  war (World War I)
  • -  monuments & memorials
  • -  public sculpture
  • -  granite
  • -  stonework (granite)
  • -  berms
  • -  fountains
  • -  ice skating rinks
  • -  Modern architectural elements
  • -  Modern Plaza gardens
  • -  gardens - Modernist
  • -  benches
  • -  oak trees
  • -  trees
  • -  flower beds
  • -  drinking fountains
  • -  ornamental grasses
  • -  picnic tables
  • -  reflecting pools
  • -  kiosks
  • -  stairways
  • -  terra cotta
  • -  lampposts
  • -  street lights
  • -  metal plaques
  • -  District Of Columbia--District Of Columbia--Washington

Latitude / Longitude

  • 38.895879,-77.032448

Notes

  • -  For related documentation, see also Square 226 and Reservations 32 and 33 (HABS DC-474) and Pershing Park (HABS DC-695).
  • -  Significance: Pershing Park has been determined nationally significant for its signature designed landscape by M. Paul Friedberg, one of modern American landscape architecture’s most accomplished urban designers. The park is an exceptional example of a landscape design of the modern period and of an approach to the design of public space as an integral part of the revitalization of an urban neighborhood in decline. Pershing Park is an outstanding example of Friedberg’s approach to small city parks (referred to as park plazas), a type to which he is recognized to have made a significant contribution. Although not originally part of the park’s plans, plantings designed by the Washington landscape architecture firm of Oehme, van Sweden & Associates were added to Pershing Park in the same year that the park opened as part of a redesign of the overall planting of the public spaces along Pennsylvania Avenue sponsored by the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation. It is also significant as the site of the Gen. John J. Pershing Memorial. Authorized by Congress in 1956, the memorial represents the nation’s tribute to the commanding general of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I and the soldiers under his command. Like the memorials to military conflicts, presidents, and other leaders on the National Mall, Pershing Park is part of a pattern of federal legislation designating commemoration of nationally important events and individuals in the federal park land of Washington, D.C.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N185
  • -  Survey number: HALS DC-63
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1983 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1979-1980 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2007 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2020-2022 Subsequent Work
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000865

Medium

  • Measured Drawing(s): 10
  • Data Page(s): 45

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HALS DC-63

Source Collection

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

Control Number

  • dc1230

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Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, M. Paul Friedberg, Wallace K Harrison, Robert W White, Van Sweden & Associates Oehme, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, et al. Pershing Park, Bounded on the north and south by Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on the east by 14th Street NW, and on the west by 15th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Washington Washington D.C, 2000. editeds by Christianson, Justine, translateds by Mcpartland, Marymitter, and Stranieri, Marcellamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/dc1230/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, C., Friedberg, M. P., Harrison, W. K., White, R. W., Oehme, V. S. &. A., Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation [...] Knott, L., Christianson, J., ed. (2000) Pershing Park, Bounded on the north and south by Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on the east by 14th Street NW, and on the west by 15th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Washington Washington D.C, 2000. McPartland, M. & Stranieri, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/dc1230/.

MLA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, et al. Pershing Park, Bounded on the north and south by Pennsylvania Avenue NW, on the east by 14th Street NW, and on the west by 15th Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. ed by Christianson, Justine, trans by Mcpartland, Marymitter, and Stranieri, Marcellamitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/dc1230/>.