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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Jenny-Sayre Ramberg
10 years ago

Save the garden as part of the needed renovations.

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Shevaun Frazier
10 years ago

The Smithsonian gardens and outdoors areas are the reason why the Mall is such a beautiful place, and the exploration of these unexpected oases in the middle of an urban centre are why children grow up loving DC. They certainly have my heart.

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Pamela Biever
10 years ago

Save the garden

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Sarah Clark
10 years ago

Save the Enid Haupt Garden!!

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Jennifer Whalen
10 years ago

Please keep this lovely peaceful garden.

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Gerald Lorentz
10 years ago

I have enjoyed the beautiful ambience of the Enid Haupt Garden for twenty years. It is a cornerstone of beauty.

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R Strub
10 years ago

Please do not get rid of this beautiful garden! It is a lovely, walkable space with color and life, both of which will be removed by the strange and intensely ugly space currently in the plans.

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William Horn
10 years ago

The Haupt Garden at the Smthsonian has been one of my favorite spots for a relaxing stroll and a visit to the neighboring Freer and Sackler Galleries for many years. The Garden has long been a high point when I have taken relatives and friends for a tour of DC, and it has been the site of more snapshots of them than any other site. Do not sacrifice this beautiful, peaceful site for more of the intrusive, comercialized, and even ugly development that is currently being inflicted on our city.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

The garden is one of my favorite places to visit and get planting ideas.

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Jessica Frazier
10 years ago

I was born in Washington and have enjoyed the garden since I was small - now an academic in Oxford I constantly boast about the beauty of the Smithsonian gardens. Do not alter this space!

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Joanna Dionne
10 years ago

Please don't destroy one of the marvels of the Mall. There are always other ways to accomplish the redesign without ruining some historical and wondrous parts. Many, many people do not like sleek, modernistic and inhuman vistas that destroy the soul of a place.

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Elizabeth Levin
10 years ago

I have many fond memories of this garden. It provides an oasis of calm and beauty for many enjoying the Smithsonian Museums.

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Lynne Lonsdale
10 years ago

This beautiful space is as much a national treasure as any thing housed in the many buildings on the Mall. Shame on you for wanting to destroy it!

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Amy Melrose
10 years ago

One of my favorite places in all of DC. Long time resident here. It is a beautiful place of refuge. Please help to ensure it remains. <3

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Maria Sanchez-Carlo
10 years ago

Don't demolish this bit of of beauty and peace.

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Paul Bohman
10 years ago

Keep the classic garden.

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Jocelyn Winter
10 years ago

C'mon! Don't do it! Say it aint so.

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Steven Schneider
10 years ago

Keep the garden

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Beth Chandler
10 years ago

I've been through the Haupt Garden several times. It is simply lovely and one of the best "formal" gardens I've seen. The structure, plants and surrounding architectural bits are of great beauty in a city that has too many plain, blocky buildings and cookie-cutter, dull plantings no different from shopping plazas. Please save the garden!

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Margaret Mintz
10 years ago

The garden is a peaceful treasure, beautifully cultivated and maintained by the Smithsonian Garden staff. Do not destroy it! The garden is a peaceful treasure.