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Navy Yard Urns (ca. 1872) in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C.
by Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing
located in James M. Goode's Pennsylvania Avenue area (click link for more in that area)
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Andrew Jackson Downing's role is not certain. The National Parks Service's List of Classified Structures (link below) suggests that he MIGHT have designed them. James M. Goode suggests that it might have been either Downing or his partner Calvert Vaux.
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See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture' (hardcover p 468 Item #10.17; Pennsylvania Avenue area);
'Outdoor Sculpture' (paperback p376 Item #J-13)
Medium: Bronze
Artist: Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing
Related subjects: Military Services
Location: Pennsylvania Ave. & 16th St NW Washington, D.C.
See Pennsylvania Avenue area in James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: McPherson Square (Orange - Blue) (click station name for all pieces nearby)
Smithsonian Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 78250019 (dcMem ID #804 )
Links & other sources
Whitehouse website on urns
President's Park (White House) website
NPS.gov List of Classified Structures on Navy Urns (suggests Andrew Jackson Downing as designer)
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