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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Edwin Eckstrand
10 years ago

The Haupt Garden is too important, both to visitors and residents, to be demolished,

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Mark Allen
10 years ago

There is NO reason to destroy a good thing such as the Enid Haupt Garden!

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Frederic Kelley
10 years ago

Don't "improve" the unimprovable.

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Jeffery Sholeen
10 years ago

Leave the Mall alone!

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Lawrence Feinberg
10 years ago

Needless destruction of a beautiful space. Please reconsider.

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William Cooper
10 years ago

Preserve, not destroy. And open the Art and Industries Building. With Art and Industry in it.

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Larry Mowry
10 years ago

Enid Haupt Garden is always a must visit when friends are in town and anywhere near the Mall.

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sheila pinsker
10 years ago

Please try to find other ways to make necessary repairs, and retain the Haupt Garden with Renwick gates and entrance spaces to NMAA, the Sackler Gallery, and the Quad. While perhaps not historically old by Smithsonian standards, they never-the-less are and should remain priceless gifts of beauty and peace available for everyone to enjoy. A volunteer with more than 44 years of active service.

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Nancy Jerdan
10 years ago

If this garden is demolished, I hope Enid Haupt comes back to haunt the perpetrators of this travesty and their descendants. This is a beautiful, relaxing and peaceful site.

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Tamara Ritsema
10 years ago

Please keep this oasis of peace and beauty in a busy city for citizens and tourists alike to enjoy

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Elisabetj Brocking
10 years ago

One of the loveliest spots in Washington. Please don't ruin it!

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Paula Massouh
10 years ago

Please do not destroy this lovely entrance to the various components of the Smithsonian. It is a wonderful place to sit and rest while visiting the Mall and should not be demolished.

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Greg Casey
10 years ago

Leave this as it is!!!

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Christine Smith
10 years ago

As a former Smithsonian employee and now a frequent visitor, the Enid Haupt Garden is one of my favorite parts of the Smithsonian. I always take out-of-town visitors, and they always love it. I rest there in the middle of hectic work days. As a gardener, I am inspired by it. And there are always lots of other visitors enjoying it when I'm there. It is unique. Plazas are not.

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Martha E Alliston
10 years ago

SAVE THE HAUPT!!! IT'S BEAUTIFUL, ONE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL PLACES IN WASHINGTON.

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Linda A Briere
10 years ago

It would be tragic to destroy this beautiful garden. It is one of the true jewels of the Smithsonian.

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Shirley Buzzard
10 years ago

It's beautiful and a needed respite from the fast pace. Please do not destroy it.

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Jeff Mooradian
10 years ago

The Haupt Garden is a spectacular refuge that should be preserved. Spending hundreds of millions to install this neo-futuristic eyesore where the botanical treasure now exists is a step in the wrong direction.

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Elissa Lichtenstein
10 years ago

Please do not tamper with this oasis of beauty and peace!

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Emma Kim
10 years ago

Please save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!!