Andrew Jackson Downing Urn
The Andrew Jackson Downing Urn, also known as the Downing Urn, is a memorial and public artwork located in the Enid A. Haupt Garden of the Smithsonian Institution on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: sculpture by Calvert Vaux and Robert Eberhard Launitz
- Also known as: “Downing Memorial” and “Downing Urn”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Mall and National Museum of African Art.
National Mall
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The National Mall, a national park, is a famous 2-mile-long tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly boulevard in Washington, D.C. stretching from the Capitol Building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial and Potomac River on the west.
National Museum of African Art
Museum
Photo: Gryffindor, Public domain.
The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes.
National Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. National Museum of Natural History is situated 1,100 feet north of Andrew Jackson Downing Urn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Downtown and East End.
Downtown
Suburb
Photo: Kurt Kaiser, CC0.
Downtown is the central business district of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest D.C. It is the third largest central business district in the United States.
East End
Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East End is D.C.'s old downtown quarter, east of 15th St, and includes the neighborhoods of Chinatown, Penn Quarter, Judiciary Square, and Mount Vernon Square. Most D.C. natives simply call this area Downtown.
Waterfront
The Waterfront is just south of the National Mall. In addition to beautiful views of the Washington Channel, which separates the parkland on Hains Point with the land contiguous with the National Mall, this neighborhood includes great seafood, restaurants, bars, sports stadiums, entertainment options and boat excursions.
Andrew Jackson Downing Urn
- Categories: sculpture and historic site
- Location: Washington, D.C., Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.8884° or 38° 53′ 18″ northLongitude
-77.0254° or 77° 1′ 32″ westElevation
30 feet (9 metres)Inception
1856Open location code
87C4VXQF+9ROpenStreetMap ID
node 358958267OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialGeoNames ID
4137557Wikidata ID
Q4757456
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to French—“Andrew Jackson Downing Urn” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Andrew Jackson Downing Urn”
- French: “Andrew Jackson Downing”
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