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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Karen Burditt
10 years ago

The Enid Haupt Garden was a delight when it opened in 1987 and has remained so for 29 years. Landscape and garden design deserve more respect than the destruction of a beautiful and delightful space. DC is too short on delight as it is. Respect it, keep it, enjoy it. Save the Enid Haupt Garden.

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Gioia Caiola Forman
10 years ago

Please do not destroy the Haupt Garden.

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Louisa Jaffe
10 years ago

Please save the Haupt Garden!

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John Lee
10 years ago

too many buildings, too few flowers.

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Frank W Krogh
10 years ago

If it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially when the "fix" is such a grotesque catastrophe.

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Megan James
10 years ago

we need more beautiful green spaces in this city and world, not fewer. please, please keep th haupt garden alive!! thank you!

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Kathryn Miller Krogh
10 years ago

In the heat of summer this oasis is a God send. It is also lovely under snow, with cherry blossoms by the Sackler moon gate, and in fall with colorful plantings.

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Jerrold Allen
10 years ago

The alternative sounds like a very short-sighted plan, considering the historical importance of this garden.

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Michaelene W Clarke
10 years ago

Please do not take away any part of this beautiful peaceful green space.

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Thomas Roberson
10 years ago

I am appalled that destruction and replacement would even be considered.

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John Steven Newman
10 years ago

A hidden oasis of beauty and tranquility - refuge from the buzz of the Mall.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please preserve this beautiful space and current design; we need more spaces like this, not fewer.

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David E Winer
10 years ago

Do not destroy this treasure! Nothing envisioned could be more valuable to the public than this oasis in the city.

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Ina Strichartz
10 years ago

I have enjoyed the garden for years. It is the one constant on my visits to the mall. Please do not do anything to destroy it!

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Tim Brazell
10 years ago

A treasure to keep

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Mary Godwin
10 years ago

Save the Haupt Gardens

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Elaine Stoudt
10 years ago

The garden is such a lovely place to rest, read, or visit. Please do not remove it!

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Linda Hornbeek
10 years ago

Why??

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Lydia Jean Herz
10 years ago

The garden is a peaceful, beautiful place. Please do not ruin one of the last tranquil spots on the mall!!! Thank you.

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Myla Williams
10 years ago

The Enid Haupt Garden is a showcase to which I always take out-of-town houseguest, and a place of beauty and refuge that I enjoy on my own regularly. Implementing the Smithsonian's proposal would not only destroy this place of beauty, it would deter potential future benefactors, by making clear that their vision of their legacy at the Smithsonian would be vulnerable and ephemeral in the span of a mere three decades.