⏳ Public comments to the National Park Service are due July 30, 2026
The official Section 106 review of the proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle.
The National Park Service has opened an additional public comment period on its Assessment of Effects Report for the proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle. This is the official process — under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act — for evaluating how the arch would affect the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington House, and the historic landscape that connects them.
The Park Service's own report finds the arch would adversely affect more than twenty historic places, would obstruct the designed view between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House, and that the granite pylons at Memorial Circle "would be removed or diminished."
Comments are due by July 30, 2026, and are accepted only through the NPS website.
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I am commenting on the Assessment of Effects Report for the proposed Triumphal Arch at Memorial Circle. The Park Service's own report finds that the arch would adversely affect more than twenty historic places, including the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington House, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Memorial Avenue corridor — a landscape designed a century ago around the open view between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington House as a symbol of national reunification. The report acknowledges the arch would obstruct that view, and that the historic granite pylons at Memorial Circle "would be removed or diminished." I ask the Park Service to fully evaluate alternatives that would avoid these harms — including smaller designs and other locations — to assess the effects of years of extended-hours construction beside Arlington National Cemetery, and to complete all required studies before concluding the Section 106 process.
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The Park Service has opened an additional public comment period on its Assessment of Effects Report for the proposed arch. This is the official process — under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act — for evaluating how the arch would affect the Lincoln Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington House, and the historic landscape that connects them. Comments are accepted only through the NPS website.
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