About the Memorial

Site Location

The National Capital Planning Commission and The Commission of Fine Arts approved the site location for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. December 1999.

Proposed MLK Memorial site.

Dr. King's Memorial site is a four-acre plot on the north east corner of the Tidal Basin within the precinct of the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt.

Winning Memorial Design.

The approved site creates a visual "line of leadership" from the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, to the Jefferson Memorial.

Site Location | Landscape Elements | Composition and Space | Designer

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