An expanded and updated nomination for the National Mall on the National Register of Historic Places is available for public review/NPS

Editor's note: The following is an unedited release from the National Park Service.

The final draft of the National Mall Historic District nomination for the National Register of Historic Places is now available for public review. The National Register is the official list of the nation’s historic places worthy of preservation, and the National Mall nomination provides basic information about the physical appearance and the significance embodied in the 110 historic buildings, structures, and sites located within the district.

The document is available online through July 8, 2016, on the National Park Service’s Planning, Environment, and Pubic Comment website at: http://go.nps.gov/NationalMallNR.

The National Mall Historic District encompasses some of the oldest and most iconic public lands in our nation. Its development reflects two seminal historic plans for the federal city – the plan designed by Pierre Charles L’Enfant in 1791 and the 1901-02 McMillan (Senate Park) Commission Plan – and represents significant contributions to the design heritage of our national capital. As the nation’s foremost commemorative landscape, the National Mall’s monuments and memorials symbolize the country’s collective values and ideals. Its open spaces define the setting of the executive and legislative branches of our federal government and provide essential civic space for historic events of national significance.

This nomination for the National Mall Historic District revises, updates, and expands the original 1981 National Register nomination for the National Mall. Originally encompassing the formal grass-covered grounds and museum buildings between the U.S. Capitol and 14th Street, NW-SW, the revised nomination expands this area east from 14th Street, NW-SW, to the Potomac River west of the Lincoln Memorial, and north from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial to the south edge of the White House grounds.

In addition to redefining the National Mall as a historic district with extended boundaries, the revised nomination reevaluates the historic context of the National Mall, and reassesses the significance of its resources. In addition, it considers the National Register eligibility of multiple resources not included in original documentation, including museum and government buildings, recently constructed memorials and monuments, cultural landscapes, and archeological sites.

The draft National Mall National Register nomination is available online at go.nps.gov/NationalMallNR through July 8, 2016; comments on points of historic fact or accuracy only may be submitted through the website. Following the completion of the review period, the nomination will be submitted to the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places for final listing.