Nearing completion on a 7.5-acre site alongside the Tidal Basin in the capital, the Roosevelt Memorial has been a source of growing controversy in recent months.

Among other works, Mr. Estern is known for his bronze sculpture of the seated President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington.

The largest, the 7.50-acre Roosevelt Memorial, is located next to the Jefferson Memorial on the Tidal Basin.

Pope planned the Roosevelt Memorial to be seen from a distance as the terminal feature of this long promenade, a giant triumphal arch of granite projecting from plain, undecorated flanking wings.

Still, even in more recent times, the G.S.A. has been a far from flawless patron, as evinced by the Roosevelt Memorial.

It was annoying when the P.C. police dictated that her statue at the Roosevelt Memorial in Washington could have no jaunty fox fur.

Didn't the Roosevelt Memorial arrive in Washington about 35 years too late?

He parked his car, walked over the footbridge that spanned a narrow waterway called Little River and followed a path to the Roosevelt Memorial, a wide plaza edged by low benches.

Roosevelt Memorial Poses Problems Sometimes today's political sensitivities present thorny problems.

Nowhere is this more true than with the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial in front of the American Museum of Natural History.