What is Jefferson Memorial?
[[File:Jefferson Memorial At Dusk 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Jefferson Memorial]] The '''Jefferson Memorial''' is a [[United States presidential memorial|presidential memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. It was dedicated to the [[List of Presidents of the United States|3rd]] [[President of the United States]] [[Thomas Jefferson]]. The [[neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] Memorial building on the [[Tidal Basin]] off the Washington Channel of the [[Potomac River]] was designed by the architect [[John Russell Pope]].<ref name = LOC>[http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/dc/dc0400/dc0473/sheet/00001a.tif Documentation of the Jefferson Memorial.] Office of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER), of the [[National Park Service]]. September 1994. Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 October 2008</ref> Construction began in December 1938. It was complete in 1939 with a ceremony attended by then-President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. As a [[National Memorial]] it was administratively listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] on October 15, 1966. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Thomas Jefferson]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Washington, D.C.]] {{US-stub}} {{USFancy}}