A stone tablet to United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unveiled at Westminster Abbey on 12th November 1948. It is situated on the west wall of the nave, near the grave of the Unknown ...

President Franklin Roosevelt speaks at the laying of the cornerstone of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, which he called the nation’s “third great shrine,” in Washington, Nov. 15, 1939.

Serious planning for the Jefferson Memorial didn’t begin until the 1930s, when then-President Franklin Roosevelt, an ardent admirer of the country’s third president, decided it would be ...

Some of the most iconic memorials that grace Washington, D.C., drawing millions of visitors every year, only narrowly survived being scrapped altogether. In 1791, Pierre L’Enfant drew up designs for ...