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The Lincoln Memorial is a U.S. national memorial that honors the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.An example of neoclassicism, it is in the form of a classical temple and is located at the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Henry Bacon is the memorial's architect and Daniel Chester French designed the large interior statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln (1920 ...
The congregation can trace its roots to the Lincoln Industrial Mission, which was founded as an educational and social aid mission after the American Civil War. The mission was built on this site in 1868-1869. [5] In 1880 ten members of First Congregational Church established Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church at the mission.
The statue of Abraham Lincoln with the inscription in the background in August 2015. The 170-ton statue is composed of 28 blocks of white Georgia marble [1] [vague] and rises 30 feet (9.1 m) from the floor, including the 19-foot (5.8 m) seated figure (with armchair and footrest) upon an 11-foot (3.4 m) high pedestal.
The first national memorial to Abraham Lincoln was the historic Lincoln Highway, the first road for the automobile across the United States of America, which was dedicated in 1913, predating the 1921 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., by nine years.
Lincoln Memorial at Waterfront Park is a statue of Abraham Lincoln, depicted as he would have looked before he became President of the United States. The sculpture of him is bareheaded, seated on a rock with an open law book in one hand and the other in an outstretched, welcoming gesture. [ 1 ]
The Lincoln Memorial, designed by Henry Bacon, was inaugurated in 1922. Many different proposals for this memorial were presented in various locations across the city. In the end, a Neoclassical temple with a large statue of a sitting Abraham Lincoln was chosen to be placed directly west
Royal Cortissoz, 1920 Cortissoz wrote the epitaph carved above the Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial. Royal Cortissoz (/ k ɔːr ˈ t iː z ə s /; [1] February 10, 1869 – October 17, 1948) was an American art historian and, from 1891 until his death, the art critic for the New York Herald Tribune.
The Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, California, is a memorial and research center dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States of America. Opened on February 12, 1932, by local philanthropist Robert Watchorn as a monument to his deceased and only son, Emory Ewart Watchorn.