Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a US national memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D. C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the form of a neoclassical temple. The memorial has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s \”I Have a Dream\” speech, delivered on August 28, 1963. It was ranked seventh on the American Institute of Architects 2007 list of America’s Favorite Architecture.
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The Lincoln Memorial is a US national memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D. C., across from the Washington Monument, and is in the form of a neoclassical temple. The memorial has been the site of many famous speeches, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s \”I Have a Dream\” speech, delivered on August 28, 1963. It has always been a major tourist attraction and since the 1930s has been a symbolic center focused on race relations. It was ranked seventh on the American Institute of Architects 2007 list of America’s Favorite Architecture. The memorial is open to the public 24 hours a day, and more than seven million people visit it annually. The first public memorial to United States President Abraham Lincoln in D.C. was a statue by Lot Flannery erected in front of the District of Columbia City Hall in 1868, three years after Lincoln’s assassination. In 1867, Congress passed the first of many bills incorporating a commission to erect a monument for the sixteenth president. An American sculptor, Clark Mills, was chosen to design the monument. His plans reflected the nationalistic spirit of the time, and called for a 70-foot structure adorned with six equestrian and 31 pedestrian statues of colossal proportions, crowned by a 12-foot statue of Lincoln. On February 12, 1914, a dedication ceremony was conducted and the actual construction got underway. On May 30, 1922, the Memorial was dedicated by President William H.
Taft – who was then Chief Justice of the U.S. – who accepted it on behalf of the people of the American people. The Memorial is administered by the National Park Service under its National Mall and Memorial Parks group – the memorial is administered to the National Register of Historic Places since October 15, 1966. It has been listed on the National register of historic places since October15, 1966, and was ranked 7th on the American Institute of Architects 2007 list of America’s Favorite Architects List of America’s Favorite Architecture and the National Register of Historic Places since October 15, 1966. The Lincoln statue was carved by the Piccirilli Brothers; the painter of the interior murals was Jules Guerin. The statue was originally designed to be 10 feet tall, but was enlarged to 19 feet to prevent it from being overwhelmed by the huge chamber of the memorial. As late as 1920 as the late President Warren G. Harding, who accepted the Memorial as the president, the statue was presented to the people on his behalf. The sculpture is now 19 feet tall and is surrounded by inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address and his second inaugural address. The monument was dedicated in May 1922, and it is one of several memorials built to Honor an American president. The National Mall is home to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the National World War II Memorial.
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