National Mall and Memorial Parks (formerly known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the

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(NPS) encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. Federally owned and administered parks in the capital area date back to 1790, some of the oldest in the

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. In 1933, they were transferred to the control of the National Park Service. These parks were known as the National Capital Parks from their inception until 1965. The NPS now operates multiple park groupings in the D.C. area, including

National Capital Parks-East National Capital Parks-East (NACE) is an administrative grouping of multiple National Park Service sites east of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., and in the state of Maryland. These sites include:Those not noted as official units are ...

Rock Creek Park Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The park was created by an Act of Congress in 1890 and today is administered by the National Park Service. In addition to the park proper, the Rock Cr ...

President's Park President's Park, located in Downtown Washington, D.C., encompasses the White House and includes the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the Treasury Building, and grounds; the White House Visitor Center; Lafayette Square; and The Ellipse. ...

, and

George Washington Memorial Parkway The George Washington Memorial Parkway, colloquially the G.W. Parkway, is a parkway that runs along the south bank of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon, Virginia, northwest to McLean, Virginia, and is maintained by the National Park Servic ...

. National Mall and Memorial Parks also provides technical assistance for the United States Navy Memorial.

List of parks, memorials and monuments

Official units administered

* Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument *

Constitution Gardens Constitution Gardens is a park area in Washington, D.C., United States, located within the boundaries of the National Mall. The park is bounded on the west by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, on the east by 17th St NW, on the north by Constitu ...

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in August 1863. The theater is infamous for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater b ...

, including Petersen HouseAlso a part of Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Park * Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial *

Korean War Veterans Memorial The Korean War Veterans Memorial is located in Washington, D.C.'s West Potomac Park, southeast of the Lincoln Memorial and just south of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. It memorializes those who served ...

Lincoln Memorial The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in ...

* Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial *

National Mall The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and va ...

* Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Park *

Thomas Jefferson Memorial The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial built in Washington, D.C. between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the Am ...

Vietnam Veterans Memorial The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of thos ...

Washington Monument The Washington Monument is an obelisk shaped building within the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, once commander-in-chief of the Continental Army (1775–1784) in the American Revolutionary War and ...

* National World War I MemorialWithin Pershing Park * National World War II Memorial

Other squares, circles, triangles, memorials, and parks

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African American Civil War Memorial The African American Civil War Memorial Museum, in the U Street district of Washington, D.C., recognizes the contributions of the 209,145 members of the United States Colored Troops (USCT). The eponymous memorial, dedicated in July 1998 by the A ...

Albert Einstein Memorial The Albert Einstein Memorial is a monumental bronze statue by sculptor Robert Berks, depicting Albert Einstein seated with manuscript papers in hand. It is located in central Washington, D.C., United States, in a grove of trees at the southw ...

* American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial * Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain *

Benjamin Banneker Circle Banneker Circle is a partial traffic circle in Southwest Washington, D.C. The name of the circle commemorates Benjamin Banneker, an African American astronomer and almanac author. In 1791, Banneker assisted in the initial survey of the boundarie ...

* Benjamin Banneker Park * Brevet Lt. General Winfield Scott Hancock statue *

Columbus Circle Columbus Circle is a traffic circle and heavily trafficked intersection in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located at the intersection of Eighth Avenue, Broadway, Central Park South ( West 59th Street), and Central Park West, at the ...

* Columbus Fountain – Union Station Plaza *

Daniel Webster Memorial The Daniel Webster Memorial is a monument in Washington, D.C. honoring U.S. statesman Daniel Webster. It is located near Webster's former home at 1603 Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C., North ...

* District of Columbia War Memorial * Doctor John Witherspoon statue *

Dupont Circle Dupont Circle (or DuPont Circle) is a traffic circle, park, neighborhood and historic district in Northwest Washington, D.C. The Dupont Circle neighborhood is bounded approximately by 16th Street NW to the east, 22nd Street NW ...

* East Potomac Park including

Hains Point Hains Point is located at the southern tip of East Potomac Park between the main branch of the Potomac River and the Washington Channel in southwest Washington, D.C.Map, National Mall Plan Study Area, Area of Potential Effect, United States D ...

Existing park transferred in 1933 * Edmund Burke statue *

Edward J. Kelly Park Edward J. Kelly Park is a park located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The park is located at the southeast corner of Virginia Avenue and 21st Street NW. Description and history On January 17, 1959, Secretary of the Interior ...

Edward R. Murrow Park Edward R. Murrow Park is a park located in Washington, D.C. at the corner of H Street (Washington, D.C.), H Street NW and 18th Street NW (Washington, D.C.), 18th Street NW. The National Park site is related to World War II, and is named after jour ...

* Farragut Square * Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial StoneWithin Pennsylvania Avenue National National Historic Site and Park * Franklin Square * Freedom Plaza * George Mason Memorial * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Memorial * Holodomor Ukrainian Holocaust Memorial * James Monroe Park * John Ericsson Memorial * National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial * Logan Circle * Mahatma Gandhi Memorial * Martin Luther statue * McPherson Square *

Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II The Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II ( ja, 全米日系米国人記念碑, ''Zenbei Nikkei Beikokujin Kinenhi'') is a National Park Service site to commemorate the contributions of American citizens of Japanese ancest ...

Milian Park Milian Park is a neighborhood-named park located on National Park Service property at north of Massachusetts Avenue at I Street, NW in the Mount Vernon Triangle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. ) , image_skyline = , image_capt ...

* Nuns of the Battlefield (Civil War Nurses Memorial) * Pan American Annex grounds – located between Constitution and Virginia Avenues, NW and 18th and 19th Streets, NW * Pulaski Park * Judiciary Square Plaza * Old Post Office Tower *

Pershing Park The National World War I Memorial is a national memorial commemorating the service rendered by members of the United States Armed Forces in World War I. The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act authorized the World War I Centennial Commiss ...

* Rawlins Park *

Rigo Walled Park Rigo Walled Park is a neighborhood-named urban open space located on National Park Service property south of New York Avenue at L Street, NW in the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is administered as part of the National Mal ...

Samuel Gompers Memorial The Samuel Gompers Memorial is a bronze collection of statues in Washington, D.C., sited on a triangular park at the intersection of 11th Street, Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.), Massachusetts Avenue, and N Street NW. Gompers was an Englis ...

* Samuel Hahnemann Monument * Scott Circle * Seaton Park * Sheridan Circle * Temperance Fountain and statue * Southwest Waterfront Park (Titanic Memorial) *

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Tomáš () is a Czech and Slovak given name, equivalent to the name Thomas. It may refer to: * Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), first President of Czechoslovakia * Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), Czech footwear entrepreneur * Tomáš Berdyc ...

* Statues of the Liberators **

Benito Juarez Benito may refer to: Places * Benito, Kentucky, United States * Benito, Manitoba, Canada * Benito River, a river in Equatorial Guinea Other uses * Benito (name) * ''Benito'' (1993), an Italian film See also * '' Benito Cereno'', a novella by ...

** Bernardo de Gálvez ** Equestrian of Simón Bolívar **

General Jose de San Martin Memorial The ''General Jose de San Martin Memorial'' is an equestrian statue memorial of Argentine general and independence leader José de San Martín in Washington, D.C., United States. The memorial is located at Virginia Avenue and 20th Street N.W. in ...

General José Gervasio Artigas A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". OE ...

* Taras Shevchenko Memorial * Thomas Circle * United States Navy MemorialUS Navy with technical assistance from the National Park Service" * Victims of Communism Memorial *

Vincent R. Sombrotto Memorial Park Vincent R. Sombrotto Park is on National Park Service property at Louisiana Avenue, 1st and C Streets, NW in the Swampoodle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. across from the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). It is named for Vince ...

* Walt Whitman Park * Washington Circle * West Potomac Park

References

External links

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National Mall Plan
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