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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Lee Pushkin
10 years ago

Loss of the Enid Haupt Garden would be a great loss indeed. Where else can we all, Washingtonians and folks visiting from around the US and the world see and enjoy such a lovely formal garden?

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Carole Murphy
10 years ago

Keep the garden. It's an oasis and a joy to visit on my lunch break.

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Cynthia Margeson
10 years ago

A serene quiet place; source of reference of what to plant in my own garden.

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Pammela Brown
10 years ago

Please leave the garden as is Thank you

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Deborah Moncure
10 years ago

Destroying this restful and beautiful garden to replace it with a "futuristic plaza"?? Seems like a pretty atrocious idea, and will be just another wasted spot that has no purpose and no use.

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Christina Files
10 years ago

It is a national treasure. Don't touch it!

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Lisa OHara
10 years ago

Gardens--more and more--matter in this mechanized world, and this one is too beautiful to lose! Our national treasures should include gardens like this one.

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Paul Bennett
10 years ago

Recently wandering the Mall, my wife and I came on the Haupt Garden unexpectedly. It was a delight to us, and obviously also to dozens of visitors. Destruction of it is nuts.

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Michael Brian Schiffer
10 years ago

If it aint broke, don't fix it. Leave this beautiful island of tranquility alone!

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Carol Kravetz
10 years ago

Why? Progress does jot include desteuction if history especially in DC. Whatever the motivation it's not worth losing the beautiful Garden.

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Lynn Trundle
10 years ago

The Haupt garden is not only beautiful, its design fits perfectly with the Smithsonian Castle as a backdrop. Leave the garden and the Renwick Gates alone!

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Karen Bate
10 years ago

The proposed new design is hideous and ruins the historical significance of this lovely garden. Don't do it!!

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Gretchen Dunn
10 years ago

This is a beautiful human landscape, a quiet refuge from the bustle of the city. Once gone it will be lost forever.

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Conni homer
10 years ago

Don't eliminate a calm, peaceful area in DC; too few of these now.

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Anne Wellington
10 years ago

Gardens are art. You don't trash a Picasso under any circumstance.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please don't ruin the Haupt Garden space with this ill-conceived master plan.

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Melanie Crowder
10 years ago

Maryland

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Lora Berg
10 years ago

City gardens nourish the soul and teach new generations to value nature. Washington doesn't need more pavement.

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Linda R Martin
10 years ago

I have great memories of escaping my cubicle to have a quiet lunch in this garden. So much creativity and care goes into that garden. What about the creatures that call that space home?

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Michael Hartridge
10 years ago

As someone who was born in DC, there is less and less beauty, and more and more cold ugly mess. Let save this Jem.