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Save the Smithsonian's Enid Haupt Garden!

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Judith Goodman
9 years ago

I couldn't agree more.

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Carolyn Russell
9 years ago

Please save the garden.

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Letty Lopez
9 years ago

Keep it open for all to enjoy !!!!

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Dawn Behen
9 years ago

Please leave the gardens as they are.

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Esther Kim
9 years ago

This lovely and historic garden needs to be preserved!

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Richard Worden
9 years ago

Come on! It's been part of an institution.

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Maggie Slade
9 years ago

Please reconsider the plans for the Rnid Haupt garden!!

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Mary A Colucci
9 years ago

The Enid Haupt Garden is a beautiful asset to the Smithsonian Institution and to Washington, D.C. With all the diverse plants, it is a mini museum in its own right. We need to retain all the beauty in the world we can. Nothing you put there will begin to replace it!

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James R ODay
9 years ago

Dear HPRB Chair & Board Members: I write in support of preserving the Enid Haupt Garden at the Smithsonian Castle and respectfully ask your body to decide in favor of protecting and preserving it as well.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

Please reconsider this plan to replace the Enid Haupt garden. It is a treasure! What the plan proposes is notinkeeping with the museum spaces.

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Elizabeth Young
9 years ago

Please save the garden exactly the way it is. Enid Haupt. I'm a tour guide and have been taking people for 12 years around that area and the garden is a solace and an oasis!

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Beverly Fourier
9 years ago

This is the most beautiful and serene place in all of Washington DC. Do not replace it with something that looks like a sterile skateboard park!

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Gordon Martin Gerson
9 years ago

I used to love sitting in the Haupt Garden on a beautiful day. There are fewer and fewer places in DC where that is possible.

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Cynthia Powell
9 years ago

Save this beautiful garden. The new plan is horrible and deadening!

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Sara Baskett
9 years ago

Who thought installing a grassy space across the street from the huge grassy space of the mall was a good idea?

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Pam Narney
9 years ago

The new design is ugly and not in keeping with the historic nature of the area. Grass is the most expensive-watering, fertilizing, pesticide spraying, mowing- non native plant possible and not good for this area. Sheet flow off of the grass will cause flooding. Grass offers no value to native birds, bees butterflies and other critters. Please do not destroy one of the most beautiful spaces in DC!

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Anonymous
9 years ago

My favorite garden in spring. Save the Haupt Garden!

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Sara Fuentes
9 years ago

This is one of my favorite spots on the mall. Do NOT destroy it!!

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Barbara Freeman
9 years ago

I worked directly with Mrs. Enid Haupt on the endowment ($3M) for this splendid garden. She would be enraged to think that the SI would betray its promise/contract with her! Negating/destroying the trust of donors to the Smithsonian Institution will result in a very long-term financial reversal!

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Pat Brown Clopper
9 years ago

I do not do Pay Pal.......nor Facebook or Twitter........I will drop a donation in to Smithsonian castle on Tuesday.........