FDR Memorial

1. The designers of the memorial created it to be accessible to those with various physical impairments, since FDR himself was disabled (from polio).

The FDR Memorial consists of a series of four outdoor rooms, one for each of his terms.

Designers did not want to show him in a wheelchair because, when he was in public he would be sitting in a chair.

The national memorial includes sculptures and works by Leonard Baskin, Neil Estern, Robert Graham, Thomas Hardy, and George Segal.

The FDR Memorial is a presidential memorial dedicated to the memory of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. For the memorial's designer, landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, the memorial site represents a distinguished career.

It says this behind the statue of FDR "They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers call this new order. This is not new and it is not order."

The National Organization on Diability raised 1.65 million over a two year period for another statue that showed the president in a wheelchair.

This memorial to FDR is spread over 7.5 acres and includes numerous statues, quotes, and waterfalls.

The FDR Memorial also contains braille among various statues, but is placed too high where even a very tall person wouldn't be able to read it.

Franklin Roosevelt remains intimately connected to the National Park Service. During a speech in 1936, President Roosevelt noted the special quality of national parks by stating that "there is nothing so American."

The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Commission was established by Congress in 1955.

Because FDR was a paraplegic the memorial was designed so it would be accessible for the disabled.

The memorial was created ten years after FDR's death.

Inside each of the four "rooms" of the FDR Memorial is a series of waterfalls that increase in complexity; the idea of the waterfalls was to show that through each of his terms his presidency became much more complex.

The FDR Memorial is the second in Washington DC. The first was built according to Roosevelt's wishes; he asked for a marble block no larger than his desk. The stone was placed on the Northwest grounds of the National Archives Building facing the US Navy Memorial.

The FDR Memorial is located between the Jefferson and Lincoln memorials.

In August 1955, ten years after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death, Congress established a commission to create a memorial to him, the 32nd U.S. president. Four years later, a location for the memorial was found. The memorial was made half way between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, along the Tidal Basin.

There is a special place or WW2 soldiers.

The F.D.R. Memorial is the first president's memorial that has a statue of a fist lady featured in it.