3D print the Jefferson Memorial
A free, printable model of the Jefferson Memorial and the lawn, road and paths around it in Washington, D.C., generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Jefferson Memorial
Washington, D.C., is home to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, a national memorial honoring the third president of the United States, who was also the main author of the Declaration of Independence. The building is neoclassical and sits in West Potomac Park by the Potomac River's shore. John Russell Pope, an architect from New York City, designed it, and the Philadelphia contractor John McShain built it. Pope's inspirations included the Roman Pantheon and the rotunda Jefferson himself designed at the University of Virginia. Along with the White House, the memorial anchors the National Mall.
Construction was completed in 1943. Several quotations from Jefferson are displayed, chosen to convey his ideology and philosophy, called Jeffersonian democracy. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the memorial on April 13, 1943, marking 200 years since Jefferson's birth. A temporary plaster cast stood in for the statue at the opening, because shortages of materials during World War II delayed Rudulph Evans's bronze, which was installed in 1947. Adolph A. Weinman sculpted the pediment relief above the entrance, and the cost came to approximately $3 million.
The grounds were designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. inside a circular driveway. Sitting directly south of the White House and in view of it, the memorial occupies filled land in the Potomac River, which was used as a beach in the late 19th century. The National Park Service, an Interior Department agency, manages it through National Mall and Memorial Parks, and the National Register of Historic Places lists it.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A ring of slender columns
- Dozens of thin columns circle the round drum. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every column, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- A smooth dome on stepped rings
- A large smooth dome rises over stepped rings. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the curve and the steps smooth, and a bigger print size softens the layer lines further.
- One piece with the ground
- The Jefferson Memorial is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Jefferson Memorial takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Jefferson Memorial is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Jefferson Memorial STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Jefferson Memorial grows with the print: about 9 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
