Navy Yard Urns (ca. 1872) in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C. by Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing located in James M. Goode's Pennsylvania Avenue area

Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing (click name for more of that artist's work)
located in James M. Goode's Pennsylvania Avenue area(click link for more in that area)Scroll down for 13 pictures
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Andrew Jackson Downing's role is not certain. The National Parks Service's List of Classified Structures (link below) suggests that he MIGHT have designed them. James M. Goodesuggests that it might have been either Downing or his partner Calvert Vaux.

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More Info
See James M. Goode's
'Washington Sculpture'(hardcover p 468 Item #10.17; Pennsylvania Avenue area);
'Outdoor Sculpture'(paperback p376 Item #J-13)
Medium: Bronze
Artist: Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing (click name for more of that artist's work)
Related subjects: Military Services
Location: Pennsylvania Ave. & 16th St NW Washington, D.C.
See Pennsylvania Avenue areain James Goode's Washington Sculpture
Nearest Metro: McPherson Square(Orange - Blue - Silver) (click station name for all sculptures nearby)
Smithsonian American Art Museum's Art Inventories Catalog: Control number 78250019 (dcMem ID #804 )

Links & other sources
Whitehouse website on urns
President's Park (White House) website
NPS.gov List of Classified Structures on Navy Urns (suggests Andrew Jackson Downing as designer)

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