The Thomas Jefferson Memorial opened in 1943, but the effort to clean and restore it is using some 21st-century technology. See photos and video.

A direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson has called for the memorial to the third president to be removed from Washington, D.C. Writing in the New York Times Monday morning, Lucian K. Truscott IV ...

The Jefferson Memorial is surrounded by the Tidal Basin (bottom), and the Potomac River (top) in Washington October 1, 2014. Photograph taken from atop the Washington Monument.

The memorial to Thomas Jefferson in Washington is almost certainly safe. But The Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit partner of the National Park Service, is planning an exhibit update—one ...

In 2016, Rubenstein also donated $18.5 million to repair the Lincoln Memorial. The planned Jefferson museum will add to a growing body of research centered on re-interpreting the president’s legacy.

Officials say biofilm is not unique to the Jefferson Memorial; it was successfully treated at the DC War Memorial in 2011. Gay Vietzke, superintendent of the National Mall and memorial parks, said ...

The marble dome of the Jefferson Memorial in D.C. is gleaming white once again, now that a dome cleaning and roof replacement project is almost done. The work began in 2019, and the scaffolding ...

Jefferson Memorial also hosts Easter egg hunts and a tree lighting event. "Whenever we were getting plots and scheduling the funeral and burial and everything, nothing was mentioned about car shows.

Lichens have sprouted on the stone. Rain has pummeled the roof. And 76 years after it was dedicated in the midst of World War II, the Jefferson Memorial has become a miniature and unsightly ecosystem.