The towering Ionic columns of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial located on the Tidal Basin in Washington D C.
The towering Ionic columns of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial located on the Tidal Basin in Washington D C Architect John Russell Pope designed the memorial based on Jefferson s own architectural tastes modeled after the Pantheon of Rome of Neoclassical style The building of the Jefferson Memorial was approved by Congress in June 1934 and the cornerstone was laid by President Franklin D Roosevelt on November 15 1939 Rudolph Evans was commissioned in 1941 to sculpt the statue of Thomas Jefferson
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