Sightseeing
Quirky FunZero Milestone
No admission feeFind the small granite marker south of the White House that was set up in 1923 as the starting point for measuring U.S. road distances.
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Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain
Find the small marble fountain on the Ellipse that remembers two men who died on the Titanic in 1912.
The Ellipse, Ellipse Road NW and E Street NW, Washington, DC · Washington, DC
About Butt–Millet Memorial Fountain
This fountain on the Ellipse in President's Park honors Archibald Butt, military aide to President William Howard Taft, and the artist Francis Millet. Both died when the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, and they are believed to be the only U.S. officials lost on the ship. Daniel Chester French carved the reliefs, and the fountain went up in 1913 as the first memorial on the Ellipse. It stands at the northwest corner of the Ellipse, near E Street.
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