How does Andrew Jackson Downing Urn elucidate its History?
Architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux designed the memorial urn, which Robert Eberhard Launitz sculpted. The urn was located and dedicated on the National Mall in September 1856, where it stood near the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History until 1965, when it was moved to the east entrance of the Smithsonian Institution Building (the "Castle").  In 1972, the urn was restored, moved to the west entrance of the Castle and rededicated. In 1987, it was relocated to the Rose Garden at the Castle's east door. The urn was moved to the Enid A. Haupt Garden in 1989.
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