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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Colleen Kirk
10 years ago

Leave the gardens where they are, they bring more beauty and history to our nations mall.

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Safieh M Fatemu
10 years ago

Please save this wonderful garden. Don't destroy it. We don't have many of these.

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Ruth Connolly
10 years ago

Stop cancelling beauty in Washington D.C. Preserve the haupt-garden. DO NOT USE MY EMAIL for publicity

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Walter Plush
10 years ago

Wonderful entry to the Castle!!! Leave it be.

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David Lamdin
10 years ago

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

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K Cerveny
10 years ago

Please don't demolish this garden. In a sea of wide open space that the National Mall is, this garden feels like a secret retreat. Not to mention that the saucer magnolia bloom in the springtime makes this garden a highlight of the cherry blossom season.

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Ellen Hirzy
10 years ago

Please save this peaceful treasure on the National Mall.

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Alana Quinn
10 years ago

This is one of the most beautiful and peaceful places on the National Mall.

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Gretchen Kirby
10 years ago

The Enid Haupt Garden is a real treasure. Our family has enjoyed this garden for many years. We have many fond memories of our children's different interactions with this space as they have grown. It has always been a draw for visiting the museums. Please maintain this beautiful national garden!

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Larry Slagle
10 years ago

This travesty in the making is the product of donor ego, unqualified and short-sided staff who risk adding to the tragic list of Capitol Losses, and a perversion of real needs (upgrading the Castle) to justify this unneeded, unwanted, and grandiose monstrosity.

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Meg Maguire
10 years ago

The Haupt Garden is a special place of beauty, calm and elegance that millions of people have enjoyed. It is madness to rip up a great success for a four-cornered pop-up grass lot.

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Sheila Brennan
10 years ago

the garden welcomes everyone to the Smithsonian from the very antiseptic portion of Independence Avenue. It causes visitors to stop and take in the architecture of the Castle and to see the African Art and Asian Art museums to their left and right. Please do not take this beautiful garden away.

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Joanna Tyler Edwards
10 years ago

I am a member of the Smithsonian and have for years enjoyed the Enid Haupt Garden each time I attend one of the many lectures and/or day-long seminars held in the S. Dillon Ripley Center. It is tragic to think about losing this beautiful, contemplative garden in the middle of our City--a treasure for sure. I remember when this area was a storage space for rockets now located in the Air and Space Museum. What a transformation the Enid Haupt Garden is from those earlier days! Please don’t destroy it.

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Cheryl Funk
10 years ago

Save this historic building!

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Kris Peterson
10 years ago

Save the garden

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Lisa garrett
10 years ago

Keep the elegant gardens please.

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E A Taylor
10 years ago

Do not spend money to destroy something beautiful, which is valued and enjoyed by many.

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Skip Moskey
10 years ago

The Enid Haupt Garden is a historic gem of American garden and landscape design that is part of the nation's cultural heritage. It must be saved.

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Pat OBrien
10 years ago

Has to be a better way...

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A Ramsey
10 years ago

Please keep this gem as-is - it's a beautiful oasis on the Mall that tourists and locals love!