The Jefferson Memorial Factoid

We recently came across a batch of vintage postcards and are slowly researching and going through them so we have the information necessary to put into our catalog.  A lot of these are Real Photo Postcards which we talked about in an earlier post and the latest we put up for sale is a great shot of the Jefferson Memorial at night under a full blossom of the beautiful cherry trees.  While looking over the research on it, it hit me... along with many other wonderful locations, DC is a roadtrip that everyone should take at least once as a child and then again, once as an adult.  I remember my first (and to this point, only) trip with my family.  I was somewhere around 12 and I recall how everything was SO big and how amazing some things were and how boring other things were.  That's the reason I say we need to go back at least once more; for as an adult, we can appreciate and most likely, enjoy the boring things from our trip in childhood!

The Jefferson Memorial.. Facts:

• Total cost to build - $3,000,000.00
• Took about 3.5 years to build and was completed in 1943
• Monument designed by John Russell Pope
• Monument stands 128 feet tall
• Statue sculpted by Rudolph Evans
• Statue stands 19 feet tall
• About 2.5 million people visit the monument every year
• Free to visit and never closes

The Memorial is just great and a definite stop on any journey to DC.  And check out the beautiful RPP we have in our catalog for a great price!