Capitol Reflection Pool

The Capitol Reflection Pool is a reflection pool in Washington, D.C. It lies to the west of the United States Capitol and is the westernmost element of the Capitol grounds. The National Mall lies to the west of the reflection pool. The Capitol Dome and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial are reflected in its waters.

United States Capitol Complex

United States Capitol

House	Cannon Ford Longworth Rayburn O'Neill (demolished - 2002)

Senate	Dirksen Hart Russell

Library of Congress	Adams Building Jefferson Building Madison Building

Others	Botanic Garden Power Plant Reflection Pool Supreme Court Marshall Judiciary Building Visitor Center Subway System

Landmarks of Washington, D.C.

Memorials	Adams Memorial African American Civil War Memorial Albert Einstein Memorial Boy Scout Memorial Daniel Webster Memorial District of Columbia War Memorial First Division Monument Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial George Mason Memorial James A. Garfield Monument Jefferson Memorial John Ericsson National Memorial John Paul Jones Memorial Korean War Veterans Memorial Lincoln Memorial Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial National Japanese American Memorial To Patriotism During World War II National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial National World War II Memorial Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial Oscar Straus Memorial Peace Monument Pentagon Memorial Robert A. Taft Memorial Second Division Memorial The Extra Mile The Three Soldiers Theodore Roosevelt Island Titanic Memorial Ulysses S. Grant Memorial United States Air Force Memorial United States Holocaust Memorial Museum United States Navy Memorial Victims of Communism Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vietnam Women's Memorial Washington Monument

Planned Memorials	Adams Memorial Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial National Slave Memorial

Former	Rainbow Pool

Other	Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Capitol Reflection Pool Healy Hall Islamic Center of Washington Jefferson Pier John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool List of public art in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home Smithsonian Institution United States Capitol United States Supreme Court Building Washington National Cathedral White House Zero Milestone

Coordinates: 38°53′23″N 77°00′49″W / 38.8898°N 77.0137°W / 38.8898; -77.0137

Famous quotes containing the words capitol, reflection and/or pool:

“A woman with her two children was captured on the steps of the capitol building, whither she had fled for protection, and this, too, while the stars and stripes floated over it.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

“I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)