Andrew Jackson Downing Urn

Title: Andrew Jackson Downing Urn
Creator: Calvert Vaux
Date: 1856 (Placed)
Description: This urn memorializing horticulturist Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) was installed on the Mall in 1856 near the present location of the National Museum of American History. The urn was moved several times before it arrived in the Enid A. Haupt Garden in the Smithsonian in 1999. Downing's friend and architectural partner Calvert Vaux designed the urn and inscribed it with a quote by Downing which contains the line, "Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people."
Source: Smithsonian Institution Archives. View original.
Coverage: 1830-1859; 1980-1999
Location: 38°53.301′N 77°1.527′W