Last updated: March 15, 2024
Bronze statue being lifted into place within the memorial chamber
Thomas Jefferson was a passionate student of architecture, and elements of his influential designs appear in the memorial.
A timeline and photographs show how 75 years ago plans to memorialize America's third president were realized.
Thomas Jefferson was a complex, 19th-century man with a wide ranging impact on the very makeup of American itself.
Situated on the Tidal Basin among the Japanese flowering cherry trees, the Jefferson Memorial is the perfect place to experience peak bloom.