Aerial view looking west at the partially finished Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. Image was taken in 1919.  West is toward the upper middle-left of the image; south is to the middle left.
<p>As constructed, Memorial Amphitheater ended in a small plaza atop a retaining wall, with a granite balustrade on the edge. The following year, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was added to this plaza.
</p><p>The road curving along the left side of this image is Porter Avenue. Just beyond it to the far left is the tree-lined Miles Drive.  At the eastern tip of the circle at the end of the drive is the Nelson A. Miles Mausoleum, already completed (General Miles would die in 1925).  The road running from the middle left to the trees in the right is McPherson Avenue.  The tree line beyond McPherson Avenue indicates the western boundary of the cemetery; beyond that is Fort Myer.
</p><p>The circular drive with crossed pathways in the upper middle portion of the image is the Confederate Memorial.  The V-shaped road to the left and above the amphitheater is Lawton Avenue; the slender shaft of the Spanish-American War Memorial can be seen at its apex.  The V-shaped road coming in west of the memorial is Sigsbee Drive. The large round base from which the tall column protrudes is the <i>USS Maine</i> Mast Memorial.
</p><p>Wilson Avenue (which will run along the right side of this image just right of the where the forest begins) has yet to be constructed.  A section of Farragut Avenue (which no longer exists) curves from the right side of the amphitheater to a slag drop at the bottom-right of the image.  The curving narrow road along the bottom of the image (partly screened by trees) is Grant Avenue.
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When constructed, a road (already under construction to the left of the southern part of Farragut Avenue) ran across the plateau to the front of the eastern retaining wall of the amphitheater.  When Congress approved expansion of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1926, it also approved the demolition of this road, and the creation of a formal Italianate garden in its stead.  A new overlook (just to the left of the slag drop) would also be created. The retaining wall was removed, and monumental stairs led down from the amphitheater plaza to the garden.
Harris &amp; Ewing
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