For more than 200 years, the National Mall has symbolized our nation and its democratic values, which have inspired the world. The National Mall — the great swath of green in the middle of our capital city and stretching from the foot of the United States Capitol to the Potomac River - is the premiere civic and symbolic space in our nation.

National Mall and Memorial Parks protects the National Mall and its iconic monuments and memorials and over 1,000 acres of greenspace in Washington, D.C.. Come to visit the National Mall and stay to explore all that National Mall and Memorial Parks has to offer.

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Admiral David G. Farragut Memorial
Admiral Samuel F. Dupont Memorial Fountain
African American Civil War Memorial
American Legon Freedom Bell
American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial
Arts of Pease: Aspiration and Literature
Belmont-Paul Women's Equality Natl Monument
Benito Pablo Juárez Memorial
Benjamin Banneker Park
Bernardo de Gálvez Memorial
Brigadier General Albert Pike Memorial
Brigadier General Count Casimir Pulaski Memorial
Chief Justice John Marshall Statue (and Chess Players Statues)
Columbus Fountain
Commodore John Barry Memorial
Constitution Gardens
Cuban American Friendship Urn
Daniel Webster Monument
Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
District of Columbia War Memorial
Doctor Samuel Hahnemann Memorial
Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
East Potomac Park: Hains Point
Edmund Burk Statue
First Air Mail Marker
Floral Library on the National Mall
Ford's Theatre National Historic Site
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
General George Washington Statue
General John A. Logan Memorial
General John J. Pershing Memorial
General José de San Martin Memorial
General José Gervasio Artigas Memorial
General Phillip Sheridan Memorial
General Simón Bolívar Memorial
George Gordon Meade Memorial
George Mason Memorial
German American Friendship Garden
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Memorial
Holodomor Memorial
Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
Japanese Lantern
Japanese Pagoda
John Ericsson Memorial
John Paul Jones Memorial
John Witherspoon Memorial
Korean War Veterans Memorial
Lincoln Memorial
Lockkeeper's House
Logan Circle
Major General George H. Thomas Memorial
Major General James B. McPherson Memorial
Major General John A. Rawlins Memorial
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock Monument
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Memorial
National Grange Marker
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial
National Mall
National World War I Memorial (Pershing Park)
Nuns of the Battlefield Memorial
Old Post Office Tower
Peace Monument
Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
Samuel Gompers Memorial
Stephenson Memorial (Grand Army of the Republic)
Taras Shevchenko Memorial
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Tidal Basin
Titanic Memorial
Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
US Navy Memorial
Victims of Communism Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Washington Monument
World War II Memorial

Source: NPS Website (2020)

Establishment National Mall and Memorial Parks — 1965

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The contents of brochures, site bulletins and trading cards (denoted with a colored caption) can be viewed by clicking on the cover. Most modern-day brochures, however, are cover only (denoted by a white caption) due to photograph copyrights. These items are historical in scope and are intended for educational purposes only; they are not meant as an aid for travel planning. The dates under each brochure do not reflect the complete range of years that a particular brochure was issued.

National Capital Parks Date Unknown, c1930s (HTML)		National Capital Parks 1949		National Capital Parks 1963
cover only 1965	Welcome to Washington 1966	cover only Welcome to Washington 1968	cover only Welcome to Washington 1971	Welcome to Washington 1976	Welcome to Washington 1977
The National Mall 1978	Welcome to Washington 1977	Welcome to Washington 1978	Welcome to Washington 1979	Welcome to Washington 1980	Welcome to Washington 1982
Welcome to Washington 1983	Welcome to Washington 1983	Welcome to Washington 1986	Welcome to Washington 1989	Welcome to Washington 1989	Welcome to Washington 1990
Welcome to Washington 1990
Bike Guide 1976	cover only Black History National Recreation Trail Washington, D.C. 1996	Washington Underground Archaeology in Downtown DC 2003	National Visitor Center 1977	cover only Urban Fossils in the Nation's Capital Date Unknown
Urban Fossils in the Nation's Capital 2007		cover only Magnolia Bogs National Capital Region Date Unknown		cover only Commodore John Barry Memorial Date Unknown
cover only The First Amendment on the National Mall Date Unknown		cover only Hispanic Heroes: National Monuments to Great Liberators Date Unknown		Date Unknown
cover only Statues of the Liberators Walking Tour Date Unknown		cover only Estatuas de los Libertadores Recorrido a Pie Date Unknown		National Park Service Where History Happens 2009
cover only City of the Constitution Washington, DC Date Unknown		Tulips in the Nation's Capital 1986	The Cherry Blossoms 1958		1969
cover only 1972	1976	1986	Cherry Blossom Trail Guide Date Unknown	cover only Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees Date Unknown
National Cherry Blossom Festival Date Unknown		Welcome to Capitol Hill Date Unknown	Welcome to Washington 1990	Welcome to Washington 1990
Trading Cards

A History of National Capital Parks (HTML edition) (Cornelius W. Heine, 1953)

A History of the National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Park (2010)

Acid Rain and Our Nation's Capital: A Guide to Effects on Buildings and Monuments (Elaine McGee, 1995)

Best Management Practices Used at Urban Parks in National and International Locations: A Background Report for the National Mall Plan (March 2007)

Building Stones of Our Nation's Capital (undated)

Christmas Pageant of Peace History (1994)

Commemorative Works in the District of Columbia: Background and Practice (Jacob R. Straus, Congressional Research Service, March 10, 2015)

Civilian Conservation Corps Activities in the National Capital Region of the National Park Service: Written Historical and Descriptive Data, National Capital Parks-Central, Washington, District of Columbia HABS DC-858 (Historic American Buildings Survey, undated)

Coastal Hazards & Climate Change Asset Vulnerability Assessment for National Mall and Memorial Parks NPS 802/154050 (K. Peek, B. Tormey, H. Thompson, R. Young, S. Norton, J. McNamee and R. Scavo, April 2017)

Cultural Landscape Report: Tidal Basin, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C. — Parts 1 and 2 (June 2020)

Cultural Landcapes Inventory: East Potomac Golf Course (2017)

Designing the Nation's Capital: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C. (Sue Kohler and Pamela Scott, eds., 2006)

Discovering your Parks (1964)

East and West Potomac Parks: A History (Gordon Chapell, 1973)

Farragut Square (George J. Olszewski, February 1968)

Foundation Document, National Mall and Memorial Parks, District of Columbia (October 2017)

Foundation Document Overview, National Mall and Memorial Parks, District of Columbia (December 2017)

Franklin Park (George J. Olszewski, 1970)

Geologic map of the national parks in the National Capital region, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia USGS Open-File Report 2005-1331 (Scott Southworth and Danielle Denenny, 2006)

Geology in the National Parks: Administrative History, Phase II Report (Harlan D. Unrau, February 1999)

Geology of the National Capital Region — Field Trip Guidebook USGS Circular 1264 (Scott Southworth and William Burton, eds., 2004)

Georgetown Architecture Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Vol. 10 (1970)

Georgetown Architecture: Northwest Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Vol. 6 (1970)

Georgetown Architecture: The Waterfront Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Vol. 4 (1968)

Georgetown Commercial Architecture — M Street Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Vol. 2 (February 1967)

Georgetown Commercial Architecture: Wisconsin Avenue Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Vol. 3 (1967)

Georgetown Historic Waterfront: A Review of Canal and Riverside Architecture (1968)

Georgetown Residential Architecture: Northeast Historic American Buildings Survey Selections Vol. 5 (1969)

Greater Washington National Parks — The 58th Presidential Inauguration Junior Ranger Activity Book (2017; for reference purposes only)

Historic Resource Study: Events and Celebrations on the National Mall and President's Park South (Patricia Kuhn Babin, S. Michael Mitchell and Valerie Hague Reiss, November 2024)

Historic Structure Report: East Potomac Park Field House, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, DC Final Submission (September 2019)

Historic Structure Report: Tidal Basin Inlet Bridge (KressCox Associates, May 2, 1986)

Lafayette Park Historical Research Series Number 1 (George J. Olszewski, 1964)

Junior Ranger Booklet, National Mall and Memorial Parks (Date Unknown; for reference purposes only)

Landscapes of Protest: A Study of First Amendment Expression in the National Park Service (Roneva C. Keel, November 2022)

Legislative History of National Capitol Parks and Descriptions of the Seventeen Original Reservations (undated)

Lincoln Memorial Grounds, West Potomac Park: Cultural Landscape Report, Part 1: Site History, Analysis and Evaluation and Design Guidelines (August 1999)

Massachusetts Avenue Architecture: Vol. 1, Northwest Washington, District of Columbia (Charles H. Atherton, Donald B. Myer, Jeffrey R. Carson, Lynda L. Smith and J.L. Sibley Jennings, Jr., 1973)

Massachusetts Avenue Architecture: Vol. 2 (J.L. Sibley Jennings, Jr., Sue A. Kohler and Jeffrey R. Carson, 1975)

McMillan Commission Plan for Washington, DC in 1902 (Charles Moore, ed., 1902)

Monument Avenue: History and Architecture (Kathy Edwards, Esme Howard and Toni Prawl, 1992)

Monuments and Memorials Authorized and Completed Under the Commemorative Works Act in the District of Columbia (Jacob R. Straus, Congressional Research Service, November 17, 2017)

Monuments and Memorials Authorized Under the Commemorative Works Act in the District of Columbia: Current Development of In-Progress and Lapsed Works (Jacob R. Straus, Congressional Research Service, updated May 23, 2019)

Monuments and Memorials in the District of Columbia: Analysis and Options for Proposed Exemptions to the Commemorative Works Act (Jacob R. Straus, Congressional Research Service, September 24, 2013)

National Capital Parks (undated)

National Capitol Area Archeological Overview and Survey Plan (Barbara J. Little, 1995)

National Mall Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.: Existing Condition Photographs: 2009 to 2010 (Final, 2010)

National Mall Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.: Summary (Final, 2010)

National Mall Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.: Volume 1 (Final, 2010)

National Mall Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, National Mall and Memorial Parks, Washington, D.C.: Volume 2 (Final, 2010)

National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form

National Mall (Donald C. Pfanz, February 11, 1981)

National World War One Memorial: The Design as Reviewed and Approved (September 19, 2019)

Neighborhood Park Service: Strategies to create an equitable and activated park system for the District of Columbia (R. Clark, K. Whittier, C. Summa and D. Moskowitz, 2023)

Park Newspaper (National Mall Times)

2007: September • October

2009: March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • Winter

2010: March • April • July • August • September • October • Winter

2011: March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • Winter

2012: March • April • May

Peace Corps Commemorative Park Environmental Assessment (July 2022)

Reservation List: The Parks of the National Park System, Washington, DC (2009)

Sculpture in the Parks: (Statues, Monuments and Memorials in the Parks of the Nation's Capitol) (March 1985)

The Contributions of Charles Carroll Glover and Other Citizens to the Development of the National Capitol (Cornelius W. Heine, undated)

The Current — The Newsletter of the Greater Washington National Parks: Vol. 2 No. 2, Spring 2007 • Vol. 2 No. 3, Fall 2007

Values and Challenges in Urban Ecology (Giselle Mora-Bourgeois, ed., May 2006)

West Potomac Park: A History, Historic Resource Study (Gordon Chapell, June 1973)

National Mall & Memorial Parks (2013)

The following visual bibliography is just a sampling of the handbooks and books which have been published for this park. NPSHistory.com does not endorse these, but are merely presenting them for informational purposes only. As most are copyrighted, we are only able to provide the covers, and not contents, of these publications.

cover only Handbook #102 Washington DC: a traveler's guide to the District of Columbia and nearby attractions 1989

cover only The Washington DC Handbook 2012