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Uptown: Bens Chili Bowl
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Uptown-Ben's Chili Bowl
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Union Station, 1908, Grand Concourse based on the Baths of Diocletian in Rome
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Union Station, 1908, Daniel Burnham, neo-classical glistening white Vermont marble set tone for 20th century capital rebirth
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Union Station, 1908, coffered (sunken panel) ceiling
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Tidal Basin: Washington Monument, 1848-1884, Robert Mills
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Tidal Basin: Kutz Bridge across Tidal Basin, 1943
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Tidal Basin: Jefferson Memorial, 1943, John Russell Pope, neoclassical after its time had passed
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Tidal Basin: Jefferson Memorial across Tidal Basin
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Tidal Basin: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, 1997, pictured with Fala
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Tidal Basin: First Cherry Tree, 1912, presented as gift from Tokyo
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Tidal Basin: Arlington Memorial Bridge, 1932, considered Washington's most beautiful bridge, low ne0-classical by McKim, Mead & Whte
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Theodore Roosevelt Island- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, 1967, Eric Gugler
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The Mall: Washington Monument's "devil eyes"
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The Mall: Washington Monument, really?
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The Mall: Washington Monument, 1884, world's tallest masonry structure at 555 feet, 5 1/8 inches
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The Mall: Washington Monument across Reflecting Pool (1920); flaunts Egyptian taboo against erecting a solitary obelisk
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The Mall: Vietnam Memorial, 1982, Maya Ying Lin
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The Mall: The Mall: National Gallery of Art (West Building), 1941, John Russell Pope
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The Mall: The Castle, 1855 by James REnwick, first building of Smithsonian Institution
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The Mall: Smithsonian Castle, 1855, James Renwick
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The Mall: Smithsonian Caslle, 1855, side view of Seneca sandstone
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The Mall: Signers Memorial, 1981, on island in lake in Constiution Gardens is only Washington memorial to signers of the Declaration of Independence
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The Mall: S Dillon Ripley Center, 1987, copper-domed kiosk leads to underground galleries
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The Mall: National Museum of Natural History, 1911, first building on north side of Mall, by Hornblower and Marshall
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The Mall: National Gallery of Art (East Wing), 1978, IM Pei, long-closed quarry reopened so marble could match older West Wing
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The Mall: National Air and Space Museum, 1976, alternating blocks of glass and granite for world's most popular museum
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The Mall: Lincoln Memorial, 1911-1922, Henry Bacon
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The Mall: Lincoln Memorial frieze detailing
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The Mall: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1974
