Washington Mall

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1. A long, rectangular stretch of parkland in the middle of Washington, D.C., that extends from the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial to the United States Capitol. The Washington Monument and the Vietnam Memorial are located on the Mall; the different museums of the Smithsonian Institution are found along either side.

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The 9/11 Memorial & Museum, with its vocabulary of voids and negative spaces, attracts hordes of tourists, but seems more suited to the Washington Mall than to downtown Manhattan.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2021

“My friends, let us not forget that we are involved in a serious social revolution,” Lewis told the huge crowd on the Washington Mall.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 29, 2020

The journalism-centric museum on the Washington Mall lets anyone stand in front of a green screen and deliver a news segment.

From The Verge ● Aug. 25, 2016

The authors — Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan — were depicted together on the book’s cover casually smiling on a congressional balcony overlooking the Washington Mall.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2015

Then the flowers and adulation would go to the condemned man, and the Bureau would add his name to the plaque at the base of the towering statue on the Washington Mall.

From The Executioner by Frank Riley