Everyone wants a piece of America’s front yard.

The recent recommendation to build a museum dedicated to Latino-American heritage on the Capitol grounds would be just the latest of more than a dozen museums and memorials added to the National Mall, or plopped right outside its proverbial front gates, over the last four decades.

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