Enid A. Haupt Garden - A Garden on a Roof
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A stop on Washington DC National Mall Walking Tour, a free self-guided tour.
The Enid A. Haupt Garden behind the Castle is open from dawn to dusk even during construction, and most visitors never guess that it is a rooftop. It opened in 1987 on top of the underground Sackler Gallery, the National Museum of African Art and the Ripley Center.
The garden covers about four acres. In the middle is a Victorian-style parterre, a flat lawn edged with flower beds in a formal pattern. On the west side, the Moongate Garden near the Sackler takes its round stone gates and pool from Chinese garden design. On the east side, the Fountain Garden near African Art draws on Islamic gardens, with water channels running between walls.
It is named for Enid A. Haupt, a publisher and garden lover who paid for it.
Next, walk east along the Mall to the Arts and Industries Building.
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Stops on this tour
- Washington Monument
- National Museum of African American History and Cu
- National Museum of American History
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- National Gallery of Art
- United States Capitol
- United States Botanic Garden
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Air and Space Museum
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- The Smithsonian Institution Building - The Castle
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Jefferson Memorial
- World War II Memorial
- Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
- Korean War Memorial
- Lincoln Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- White House Ellipse
- White House
- Lafayette Square