Thomas+Jefferson+Memorial

 Susy M. Ruiz Sors:  The Jefferson memorial is dedicated to commemorate a crucial character of the American history, Thomas Jefferson third president of the United States of America. Thomas Jefferson not only was a critical author of the Declaration of Independence, but he too was the first United States Secretary of State.

 It was asked to be constructed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. Although this monument started out as a competition for a Theodore Roosevelt memorial and was won by John Russell Pope, the Congress never funded the project so it was not built. All this took place in 1925. In 1934 a congress man, John J. Boyland got the Congress to give in $3 million to start the Jefferson Memorial. John Russell Pope was chosen to be the architect in 1935. The building was not started until 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone.

 This memorial is super noteworthy not only because it honors a great American figure but because it reminds you of the great civil role model anyone can become. Being in that memorial kind of makes you want to give your best out to the world, not only because of the perfect location of the monument that can become intimidating (S outh bank of the Tidal Basin near downtown Washington, directly across the White House.) but because of the powerful energy that hangs within the majestic dome of neoclassical architecture of that Rome-pantheon-based-structure-dome-thing.      