• The Jefferson Memorial is in Washington, D.C.
• It was designed in classical Roman style by John Russell Pope, Otto R. Eggers, and Daniel P. Higgins.
• It is made of white Georgia marble in a graceful rotunda or circular structure.
• It was dedicated on April 14, 1943 to President Thomas Jefferson on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
• The statue of Jefferson was sculpted by Rudolph Evans.
• Th statue is 19 feet high, resting on a black granite pedestal  6 feet across.
• This quotation is on the Thomas Jefferson Statue: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against any form of tryanny over the mind of man."
• Japanese cherry trees - a gift from the city of Toyko in 1912 - decorate the memorial site with pink blossoms for two weeks each spring.
• The Jefferson statue is facing The White House.

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Information Found:
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    "Jefferson Memorial"  Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. CD-ROM  2000