These Four Freedoms has been incorporated in numerous works of art and monuments around the country.
The American architect Louis Kahn was appointed to design the park.
Louis Kahn completed the design, but died shortly after.
Funding issues forced the plans to be shelved for the next 38 years.
The four-acre park is located on a triangular elevated platform topped with a lawn and sloping sides.
The park terminates in a square room, looking out to the sea, built of monumental granite blocks.
The walls stand 12 feet high, but there is no roof.
On one wall, the “Four Freedoms” speech is inscribed.
A bronze bust of Roosevelt faces north towards the entrance of the park and away from the room.
The bust was made by artist Jo Davidson.
The memorials entrance on the north is marked by five copper-beech trees.
That’s all I had.
Why did I want a room and a garden?
I just chose it to be the point of departure.
The garden is somehow a personal nature, a personal kind of control of nature.
And the room was the beginning of architecture.
