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A 1938 Works Progress Administration poster for Fort Marion National Monument, now called Castillo de San Marcos. The United States has 134 protected areas known as national monuments. The president of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, and the United States Congress can do so by
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 ...
Monuments and memorials to George Washington in the United States (1 C, 46 P) Pages in category "Buildings and monuments honoring American presidents in the United States" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
Jefferson Memorial's exterior Jefferson Memorial's interior. The Jefferson Memorial is a national memorial in Washington, D.C., built in honor of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, a central intellectual force behind the American Revolution, a founder of the Democratic-Republican Party, and the nation's third president.
Monuments and memorials to presidents of the United States in Poland (4 P) Monuments and memorials to presidents of the United States in the United Kingdom (10 P) Presidential memorials in the United States (22 P)
National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
Stained glass window of George Washington at Prayer (1954–55), Congressional Prayer Room, United States Capitol. George Washington on Horseback (1959), by Herbert Haseltine, Washington National Cathedral. Bust of George Washington (1975), by Avard Fairbanks, George Washington University.
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring American Civil War general and 18th president of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.It sits at the base of Capitol Hill (Union Square, the Mall, 1st Street NW/SW, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Maryland Avenue), below the west front of the United States Capitol. [3]