The Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in the National Mall.

It has been described as America’s front yard, and remains one of the most famous vistas in America.  However, that vista is in danger of being buried beneath a cavalcade of carved stone, promenades, and trees.  A brand new 4-acre monument to Martin Luther King, Jr. is scheduled to open up at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.  The $120-million-dollar King memorial will be located at 1964 Independence Avenue, and will feature a 30-foot-tall carving of King, as well as an inscription wall and a giant split boulder.

“To say the mall is complete strikes us as essentially saying American history has come to a screeching halt, and no one believes that,” commented Judy Scott Feldman, chairwoman of the National Coalition to Save Our Mall, a National Mall preservation group.  “The early main monuments were anticipated in a plan with a symbolic logic.  The recent ones have just been plopped where Congress and the regulatory agencies see empty space.”

That includes the 4-acre MLK memorial, which has been built along the Tidal Basin and is scheduled to open on August 28, the anniversary of King’s 1963 “I Have A Dream” speech.  The National Mall was designed by Pierre L’Enfant in 1791 as a geographical monument to the Constitution.  The last new monument erected was a 2004 monument to World War II; the new King monument makes 9, with half of those being built within the last 16 years.

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