Detroit evening times., April 11, 1943, FINAL, Image 66

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America will pay tribute to the memory
of the author of the Declaration of Inde
pendence next Tuesday, when the nc'*
Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Wishing
ton, D. C., is formally dedica cd The
occasion will mark the 200th anniversary
THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL AS IT LOOKS FROM OPPOSITE BANK OF TIDAL BASIN
THOMAS JEFFERSON
of Jefferson's birth. Erected by Act of
Congress, at a cost of $3,000,000, the
Memorial is in the majestic form of the
’antheon, a design which gives appropri
ate recognition to Jefferson's aesthetic
interest in ancient classic architecture.
It was the Pantheon which inspirod the
rotunda as the head of his plan for the
University of Virginia. A circular colon
nade was added to the impressive pattern.
The Memorial was designed by the late
John Russell Pope, with Otto R. Eggers
and Daniel Paul Higgins aa associates.
form of tyranny over the
mind of man/'
A
yE HOLD these truths to be self-evident: that
/ all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain un
alienable rights; among these are life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights
governments are instituted among men. We . . . solemnly
publish and declare that these colonies are and of right
ought to be free and independent states ... and for the
support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the pro
tection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge our lives,
our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
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penitence , fin inneriheil on the trail of the
netr Jefferson Memorial .
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WHITE HOUSE FROM MAIN ENTRANCE OF MEMORIAL
The Jefferson Memorial occupies the last of the principal focal points estab
lished in 1790 by Major Pierre L'Enfant in his plan for the City of Washing
ton. It stands at the Tidal Basin, a short distance south of the Washing
ton Monument and on the center line of the Whit 4 House View above was
taken from inside the building through the north or main entrance portico.
The lonic exterior columns, of white Vermont marble, rise 43 feet high.
Ji‘fferson\% font oils ijiiolalitm at the
Inp of the /nine is inseriheil uroninl
tile circle of the frieze beneath the
Mem or ini' s ilome.