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The monument was cast in Munich in 1875 and shipped to Washington the following year. Congress accepted the statue as a gift from the "colored citizens of the United States" and appropriated $3,000 for a pedestal upon which it would rest. The statue was erected in Lincoln Park, where it still stands. [4]
Lincoln Park is the largest urban park located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was known historically as Lincoln Square . From 1862 to 1865, it was the site of the largest hospital in Washington, DC: Lincoln Hospital .
Abraham Lincoln (1920) is a colossal seated figure of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sculpted by Daniel Chester French (1850–1931) and carved by the Piccirilli Brothers. Located in the Lincoln Memorial, constructed between 1914 and 1922 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the statue was unveiled ...
Carle Park 1927 Lorado Taft: Lincoln the Mystic: Jersey City, New Jersey. Lincoln Park. 1929 James Earle Fraser: Lincoln Monument: Wabash, Indiana. Wabash County Courthouse. 1932 Charles Keck: Abraham Lincoln Monument: Ypsilanti, Michigan. Lincoln Middle School 1938 Samuel Cashwan: Lincoln Monument: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fairmount Park ...
Furthermore, the Potomac Park site was already designated in the McMillan Plan of 1901 to be the location of a future monument comparable to that of the Washington Monument. [7] [8] Chief Justice William Howard Taft, President Warren G. Harding, and Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, at the memorial's dedication on May 30, 1922
The statue was unveiled on the anniversary of her 99th birthday, July 10, 1974, before a crowd of over 18,000 people. The funds for the monument were raised by the National Council of Negro Women, the organization Mrs. Bethune founded in 1935. [2] It is located in Lincoln Park, at East Capitol Street and 12th Street N.E. Washington, D.C. [3]
Abraham Lincoln: The Man (also called Standing Lincoln) is a larger-than-life size 12-foot (3.7 m) bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. The original statue is in Lincoln Park in Chicago , and later re-castings of the statue have been given as diplomatic gifts from the United States to the United Kingdom ...
The Ulysses S. Grant Monument is a presidential memorial in Chicago, honoring American Civil War general and 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.Located in Lincoln Park, the statue was commissioned shortly after the president's death in 1885 and was completed in 1891.