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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Sarah Jewel
10 years ago

I have wonderful childhood memories of this garden.

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Gregg Myer
10 years ago

We sign and support

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Amanda Hobart
10 years ago

With all the new, weighty, and intrusive memorials being erected, and the many historic beauties being removed or destroyed throughout the world, it is hard to understand the derelict notion of demolishing the the Haupt Garden. It is one of the finest, and surely most glorious visual, art, and historic places in the Nation's Capital. A garden of unequaled grandeur in America, It must be preserved.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I recently visited the garden again as I was at the Sackler Museum. It is a jewel in the wasteland that is the mall.

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Laurie Ferreri
10 years ago

I would deeply regret seeing this beautiful garden, which I have so enjoyed, be destroyed! Please don't do this.

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Marc Nicholson
10 years ago

The garden is a quiet haven from the Mall, a botanical beauty spot, and a Victorian design very much in keeping with the architecture of the adjacent Castle. Why in the world would one want to reconfigure and ruin it?

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Donna Seam
10 years ago

Preserve this beautiful garden!

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Terry Carter
10 years ago

This is a thoughtless and inappropriate use of money (that you don't even know for certain where it will come from). Preserve, do not destroy.

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marya DeBlasi
10 years ago

Before I signed I went to see what had been proposed as a replacement. I see it is intended to replace a lovely garden with grass circles. Nope, nope, nope, nope.

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Mina Gold
10 years ago

Save the garden!

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Kathleen OLeary
10 years ago

As a Smithsonian Resident Associate member of many years, I ask that the plans be reviewed and redrawn and that the EH Garden be retained.

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Joseph Michael Finger
10 years ago

The proposed design is inappropriate, better to keep what we have and enjoy.

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Mary Gawlik
10 years ago

As a museum, I should think that you would place conserving the historic garden as a priority in any renovation.

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Rick Massumi
10 years ago

I have lived in DC almost all my life, and the Haupt Garden is one of the highlights of my days. The alternative design is disgusting and stupid and will never be used by anybody (despite the fakey renderings of children running through swirls of butterflies). PLEASE KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE GARDEN!

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Susan Chadick
10 years ago

the Enid Haupt Garden is a treasure that deserves to be maintained.

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Sergio Magnacca
10 years ago

keep as is thank you!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

The proposed master plan is ill conceived - given destruction rather than enhancement of a cultural landmark - the Enid Haupt Garden and lacking comprehensive site planning to include Arts and Industries, a major part of the site.

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Adam Shipley
10 years ago

Keep the formal garden.

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Topher Hurley OConnor
10 years ago

I grew up going here. I love the garden.

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Martha Pardavi-Horvath
10 years ago

An island of peace and joy, Leave it, save it, cherish it!