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Type:
  
Traffic circle

Created
  
1877

Added to NRHP
  
20 September 1978

Maintained by:
  
DDOT

Address
  
Washington, DC 20016, USA

Year
  
1877

Major cities
  
Washington, D.C.

Peace Circle

Roads atjunction:
  
Pennsylvania Avenue NW1st Street NW

Similar
  
James A Garfield Monument, Ulysses S Grant Memorial, Robert A Taft Memorial, John Ericsson National, Adams Memorial

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Peace Circle is a traffic circle in Washington, D.C., located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and First Street NW. At its center is the Peace Monument, also known as the Naval Memorial. It is a monument to the naval deaths during the American Civil War. The monument is topped by the allegorical sculptures of Grief and History. On the southwest side facing the United States Capitol there is a figure of Peace, and on the northwest side, there are figures of Victory and the babies Mars and Neptune. The monument is located on Capitol grounds adjacent to the Capitol Reflection Pool. The monument was sculpted by Franklin Simmons and completed in 1878. The monument was restored in the 1990s.

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