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Fiske Kimball and the Jefferson Memorial: A Pyrrhic Victory for American Architecture
Series: Power, Architecture, and Politics: The Design of Washington and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts Symposium
Presented By: Carroll William Westfall, Frank Montana professor and chairman, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
Date Recorded: May 19, 2010
Duration: :38:14
The Commission of Fine Arts established in 1910 guarded the 1901 McMillan Commission’s image of Washington with discretion and clarity for a quarter of a century. But in the late 1930s it had a change of heart when confronted with John Russell Pope’s Jefferson Memorial.
