Monuments by Maya Lin
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November 13, 1982 - Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Constitution Gardens, National Mall, Washington, DC (USA). Originally named 58,159 members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War and who died in service or are still unaccounted for. In 2007, ranked tenth on the "List of America's Favorite Architecture" by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Aligned with Lincoln Memorial & Washington Monument.
1989 - Eliza Evans Baker Peace Chapel, Baker-Henry Nature Preserve near Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania (USA). Designed by Maya Lin. Image shows setting sun. Eliza Evans Baker was a peace educator. Juniata College has the Baker Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies (PACS). Entry #869 in the "Peace Movement Directory" by James Richard Bennett (2001).
1989 - Civil Rights Memorial (fountain), Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Montgomery, Alabama (USA). By Maya Lin. A memorial to 40 people who died between 1954 (year of Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education) and 1968 (year of Martin Luther King's assassination.)
1993 - "The Women's Table," in front of Sterling Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conneticut (USA). "A spiral, engraved timeline that records the number of women in Yale programs from the founding of the University in the early 18th century through 1993."
2001 - Ecliptic Park, Rosa Parks Circle, Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA).
October 25, 2005 - Water Table Fountain, Arts Plaza, University of California Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California (USA).
1999 - Langston Hughes Library,