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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Alberta Mikulka
10 years ago

Please do not destroy these gorgeous and relaxing gardens just to put in something new and sterile.

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Jessica Wodinsky
10 years ago

Destroying a garden is breaking one's very little peaceful space.. Please reconsider this proposal

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Luca Thamattoor
10 years ago

Don't destroy American history's garden of eden

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Grace Morsberger
10 years ago

The Enid Haupt Garden is one of my favorite places in DC. It's a peaceful haven and in the Spring the tulip magnolias are truly magnificent. It would break my heart were this garden to be destroyed.

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Danny Sanderson
10 years ago

You can't destroy something that beautiful

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Holly Hasman
10 years ago

Save the garden!

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Janet Benini
10 years ago

This garden is very special and inspirational to gardeners everywhere. Please continue it!

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Jeff Malakoff
10 years ago

Keep the garden!

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roxanne Hiltz
10 years ago

the gardens are one of the things i come to DC to see... they are irreplaceable! keep the spaces between the bUILDINGS! build your extensions, if really needed, underground. (like they do in in the UK I think)

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joan M Mitric
10 years ago

This Garden is not only a green oasis for workers and a refuge of tranquility and grace, it is a favorite place of grandparents teaching children about art, labyrinths, and organizing scavenger hunts of all kinds. I resent the stupidity of the proposed Master Pan that would obliterate it!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

The new design has no place in DC. It's cold and uninviting. The Enid A. Haupt Garden is a jewel and an oasis in the cacophony of DC and should be more highly valued.

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Anne Lindenfeld
10 years ago

As a 30 year resident of DC, I have enjoyed the beauty and peacefulness of the Enid Haupt Garden many times. It compliments the historic landscape of the Smithsonian Castle. It would be a terrible loss to destroy it. Please protect this garden!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

This is an oasis of beauty and should not be disturbed. It gives pleasure to everyone who comes upon it - whether on purpose or by accident. We need delightful spaces like this in our nation's capital.

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Carol
10 years ago

Leave as is please!!

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Carolyn Leonard
10 years ago

This treasure must live on for the sake of history and beauty.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Love this garden!

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Karen Zens
10 years ago

The Haupt Garden (and the adjacent entrances to the Sackler and African Art Museums) are magical places on a human scale in a city with too many arid, monumental spaces. They are enjoyed by residents, workers from nearby offices and tourists every day. Destroying them to create additional space for the Smithsonian would be one of the great architectural crimes of the century.

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Jon Hendrix
10 years ago

Leave the Garden as it is. There is absolutely no aesthetic value to the change, and the funds needed to implement it would be better used elsewhere.

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Brenda Skarphol
10 years ago

It's a beautiful and heavily used garden - preserve it!

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Marika Sniscak
10 years ago

Historic gardens that continue to be maintained are rare and a treasure that can't be replaced. Don't destroy the gardens.