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HAUPT Fountains near the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
First Lady Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson created the Committee for a More Beautiful Capital. Part of her dream was to "frame the White House in water." Each fountain is made from an enormous slab of granite 18 feet square, nearly a foot thick, and weighing 55 tons. The granite was quarried in Morton, Minnesota, from rock more than 3.5 million years old. These rainbow granite monoliths were a gift of publishing magnate Mrs. Enid Haupt. The fountains frame the White House on the main north-south axis at Sixteenth Street and Constitution Avenue. Source: NPS.gov
(as a work of the federal gov't it is in the public domain)
Address: Constitution Ave between 15th & 17th Sts NWNorth of Const Ave Nearest Metro: Federal Triangle (Orange - Blue)
(dcMem ID #990)
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