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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Brian Dofflemyer
10 years ago

The garden is beautiful and should be preserved.

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Laura Scheele
10 years ago

We urge you not to destroy this peaceful and beautiful garden that is a respite to many from the stress of the city. Thank you,

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Jane Frances OConnor
10 years ago

As a DC licensed guide, these gardens are one of a kind. Don't let them go!

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Matt Eldridge
10 years ago

This garden is a jewel. Destroying it for the proposed futuristic design is shortsighted.

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Dean Waldron Smith
10 years ago

Just one more example of the Smithsonian's decline, politicization, and mismanagement,

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Arvilla Brewer
10 years ago

A friend of mine who had just undergone a bone marrow transplant at NIH could walk in and enjoy the garden but not the closed galleries which were filled with kids. His immune system was compromised.

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Lawrence E Conley
10 years ago

We lose so many valuable urban spaces to the pressure of economics. This one belongs to the Smithsonian. Is nothing sacred?

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Judit Farinelli
10 years ago

This is a very nice garden.They put in lot of money and work years after years to keep it beautiful.Why they want to destroy it?

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Beverly Ward
10 years ago

Please don't destroy this beautiful treasure.

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Eugene Day
10 years ago

I am a DC resident who walks through the Garden almost weekly, going out of my way to enjoy it, see it change with weather and seasons. I remember when the space held Quonset huts which constituted the air and space collection. Please preserve a unique and precious part of my city.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

Please preserve this haven and respect the donor (if you want donations in future).

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Dawn Higgins
10 years ago

It's so beautiful! Why would it be destroyed!!

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Mary Brennan
10 years ago

It would be a travesty to lose this beauty. Please save this treasure.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I visit this lovely garden often!

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Mindy leblond
10 years ago

I love this garden. We need to keep it!

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Jennifer R Levin
10 years ago

Don't destroy this beautiful oasis.

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Stacy Baker
10 years ago

I live in Southwest DC about a mile from this beautiful garden, which is a treasure on the Mall. It is perfectly suited to the architecture of the building, and it would be such a waste to destroy its tranquility and many secluded spots in favor of a wide open contemporary square. We already have plenty of that on the Mall and other developments in DC. Please preserve this special place!

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Kim
10 years ago

Please save this gorgeous garden, so important to the museums and a lovely place to just sit and relax. Thank you!

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Anonymous
10 years ago

One of the loveliest places on the Mall. Do not destroy these gardens!

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Barbara Taylor
10 years ago

Save the garden.