Fiske Kimball and the Jefferson Memorial: A Pyrrhic Victory for American Architecture

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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.

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