South of the Washington Monument, around the Tidal Basin that is home to the city’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival, you’ll come across the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. The first president to be inaugurated at the nearby Capitol, Jefferson was an avid student of architecture, and elements of his influential designs appear in the memorial. A circular colonnade of Ionic columns supports a shallow dome, and in the center stands a bronze statue of Jefferson clutching the Declaration of Independence.
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