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About this Item

Title

  • Tidal Basin, Roughly bounded by Independence Avenue, Fourteenth Street, East Basin Drive, and Ohio Drive, Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Names

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Office of Public Buildings and Grounds
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS)
  • U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA)
  • National Capital Planning Commission
  • Taft, Helen Herron
  • Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
  • Cret, Paul Philippe
  • Halprin, Lawrence
  • ROMA Design Group
  • Jackson, Ed
  • Harwell, Faye
  • Michler, Nathaniel
  • Abert, Sylvanus Thayer
  • Twining, W. J.
  • Hains, Peter Conover
  • Bingham, Theodore A.
  • Symons, Thomas
  • Bromwell, Charles S.
  • Cosby, Spencer
  • Harts, William W.
  • Burnap, George
  • Pope, John Russell
  • Higgins, Daniel P.
  • Eggers, Otto R.
  • Evans, Rudolph
  • Neal, Darwina
  • Ross, Wendy M.
  • Baskin, Leonard
  • Estern, Neil
  • Graham, Robert
  • Segal, George
  • Brainard and Rice
  • George C. Fobes and Company
  • Ross, P. Sanford
  • Morgan, Thomas P.
  • Benson and McNee
  • Potomac Dredging Company
  • Maryland Dredging and Contracting Company
  • Van Patten, John
  • Somers, Frank
  • Vanderwerken, G.
  • Potomac Sandstone Company
  • Mohler, W. H.
  • Cranford Paving Company
  • Raymond Concrete Pile Company
  • J.F. Manning Company, Inc.
  • John McShain, Inc.
  • Contini, Attilio J.
  • Weinman, Adolph Alexander
  • Corson and Gruman Company
  • New England Tree Expert Company
  • Wilmoth Paving Company
  • H.L. Frost and Higgins Company
  • Alexander and Repass Construction Company
  • Alexander, Archie Alphonso
  • Repass, Maurice
  • Benson, John
  • Davis Construction Company
  • Walsh Construction Company
  • A.R.T. Research Enterprises, Inc.
  • McKissack and McKissack
  • Turner Construction
  • Tompkins Builders
  • Gilford Corporation
  • McMillan Commission
  • Hekimian, M. N.
  • Hollis, J. H.
  • Fairchild, David
  • Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah
  • Takamine, Jokichi
  • Kuwana, S. I.
  • Kumagaya, Y.
  • Miyoshi, M.
  • Funazu, S.
  • Iguchi, Sadao
  • Kutz, Charles W.
  • Kiranuma, Ryozo
  • Thomas Jefferson Memorial Commission
  • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission
  • Pedersen and Tilney and Associates
  • Breuer, Marcel
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Project Foundation
  • Brady, Sheila
  • Oehme, van Sweden and Associates
  • Benson, Nick
  • Yixin, Lei
  • Miller, John
  • Charles G. Smith & Son
  • Carter & Clarke
  • Kendall, J. B.
  • Wyeth, Nathan C.
  • G.W. Manufacturing Company
  • U.S. War Department
  • Electro Bleaching Gas Company
  • Hyde and Baxter
  • Ridley, Clarence S.
  • Wells, William J.
  • Cuyler and Mohler
  • Thomas Somerville & Sons
  • Ficklen and Company
  • Cormac Corporation
  • Gillen, Francis F.
  • Potts and Callahan
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr.
  • Mason, George
  • Scardina, Befu Morris
  • Rhodeside and Harwell
  • U.S. National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Region, sponsor
  • National Mall and Memorial Parks, sponsor
  • Lockett, Dana, project manager
  • Stevens, Christopher M., project manager
  • Christianson, Justine, historian
  • Sanders, Mattea, historian
  • Ortiz, Jarob J., photographer
  • Scalera, Justin R., photographer
  • McNatt, Jason W., field team
  • Pierce, Ryan, field team
  • Canfield, Charles D, field team
  • Farmer, Carly, field team
  • Christianson, Justine, transmitter
  • Stevens, Christopher M., transmitter
  • McPartland, Mary, transmitter

Created / Published

  • Documentation compiled after 2000

Headings

  • -  monuments & memorials
  • -  cherry trees
  • -  elm trees
  • -  hollies
  • -  oak trees
  • -  maples
  • -  linden trees
  • -  maples
  • -  locust trees
  • -  pines
  • -  shrubs
  • -  pagodas
  • -  bodies of water
  • -  rivers
  • -  sidewalks
  • -  sea walls
  • -  stone walls
  • -  terra cotta pipes
  • -  pipes (conduits)
  • -  recreation
  • -  granite
  • -  retaining walls
  • -  fountains
  • -  public sculpture
  • -  trellises
  • -  stone benches
  • -  benches
  • -  reinforced concrete construction
  • -  concrete arch bridges
  • -  Neo-Classical architectural elements
  • -  historical markers
  • -  bas-reliefs
  • -  inscriptions
  • -  beds (site elements)
  • -  flower beds
  • -  steel girder bridges
  • -  kiosks
  • -  street lights
  • -  railings
  • -  memorial landscapes
  • -  civil engineering
  • -  U.S. Presidents
  • -  landscape architects
  • -  commemoration
  • -  reclamation of land
  • -  boathouses
  • -  District Of Columbia--District Of Columbia--Washington

Latitude / Longitude

  • 38.884593,-77.039208

Notes

  • -  For additional documentation, see also: Tidal Reservoir (HAER DC-9); Tidal Reservoir, Inlet Bridge (HAER DC-9-A); and Tidal Reservoir, Outlet (HAER DC-9-B).
  • -  Significance: The creation of Potomac Park and the Tidal Basin was a significant engineering feat that utilized the most sophisticated technologies available at the turn of the twentieth century. The importance of this newly created land, located as it was just south of the White House and the Washington Monument and on the banks of the Potomac River, was immediately recognized and care was taken to develop it appropriately. The Tidal Basin is world renowned for its cultural landscape comprised of thousands of flowering cherry trees and for the monuments to significant American leaders now located on its shores.
  • -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N163
  • -  Survey number: HALS DC-59
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1882-1909 Initial Construction
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1943 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 1997 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2002 Subsequent Work
  • -  Building/structure dates: 2011 Subsequent Work
  • -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000217

Medium

  • Photo(s): 50
  • Color Transparencies: 8
  • Measured Drawing(s): 20
  • Data Page(s): 175
  • Photo Caption Page(s): 6

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HALS DC-59

Source Collection

  • Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

  • dc1199

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Chicago citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, Office Of Public Buildings And Grounds, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Commission Of Fine Arts, National Capital Planning Commission, Helen Herron Taft, et al., Ortiz, Jarob J, and Justin R Scalera, photographer. Tidal Basin, Roughly bounded by Independence Avenue, Fourteenth Street, East Basin Drive, and Ohio Drive, Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Washington Washington D.C, 2000. translateds by Christianson, Justinemitter, Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/dc1199/.

APA citation style:

Historic American Landscapes Survey, C., U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, Office Of Public Buildings And Grounds, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Commission Of Fine Arts, National Capital Planning Commission [...] Farmer, C., Ortiz, J. J. & Scalera, J. R., photographer. (2000) Tidal Basin, Roughly bounded by Independence Avenue, Fourteenth Street, East Basin Drive, and Ohio Drive, Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. Washington Washington D.C, 2000. Christianson, J., Stevens, C. M. M. & McPartland, M., transs Documentation Compiled After. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/dc1199/.

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Historic American Landscapes Survey, Creator, et al., photographers by Ortiz, Jarob J, and Justin R Scalera. Tidal Basin, Roughly bounded by Independence Avenue, Fourteenth Street, East Basin Drive, and Ohio Drive, Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC. trans by Christianson, Justinemitter, Stevens, Christopher M.Mitter, and Mcpartland, Marymitter Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/dc1199/>.