Eggers & Higgins was a New York architectural firm partnered by Otto Reinhold Eggers and Daniel Paul Higgins. The architects were responsible for the construction phase of the Jefferson Memorial beginning in 1939, two years after the death of its original architect, John Russell Pope, despite protests that their appointment had been undemocratic and therefore "un-Jeffersonian". Critics argued a competition should have been held to choose Pope's successor. In 1941, they also completed construction of Pope's other famous design, the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, also in Washington, D.C.
Eggers and Higgins in their New York City offices in 1941
Indiana University's auditorium, developed by Eggers and Higgins in 1942
The Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. It was built between 1939 and 1943 in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, a founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation's third president.
Jefferson Memorial from across the Tidal Basin at dusk, in 2011
Jefferson Memorial's exterior
Jefferson Memorial's interior
The Jefferson Memorial's construction in May 1941 as seen from across the center of the Tidal Basin