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Architect Henry Bacon designed the Lincoln Memorial, and sculptor Daniel Chester French created its enormous Lincoln statue. Bacon viewed the memorial, with its 36 enormous Doric-style columns, as the logical conclusion to the development of the National Mall, complementing the U.S. Capitol to the east and the Washington Monument at its mid-point. In an elaborate ceremony, President Warren G. Harding awarded Henry Bacon the AIA Gold Medal at the site in 1923.
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Comments (3)
Yet the Lincoln Memorial is not simply the terminus of the Mall. Since the McMillan Plan planners had looked to extend the Mall across the river, linking memorial Washington with its lost partner Arlington.
This was eventually done with the Arlington Memorial Bridge...so the Lincoln Memorial serves as the hinge around which it all revolves--facing the Capitol but also facing the South, the first thing commuters crossing the Potomac see.
Posted by Matthew Gilmore | February 15, 2007 7:06 PM
Posted on February 15, 2007 19:06
Washington's most beautiful view, IMHO, is from the steps of this memorial at night.
Posted by Frobozz | February 17, 2007 5:02 AM
Posted on February 17, 2007 05:02
Matthew,
It was only decades after the Civil War that Lincoln could be memorialized as a uniter of America and Americans. And the bridge between the Lincoln Memorial and Robert E. Lee's Arlington House is an important symbol of this mythology.
Posted by Andy | February 18, 2007 10:07 AM
Posted on February 18, 2007 10:07