Statues of Abraham LincolnLincoln Memorial . © Harris & Ewing THE HEROIC STATUE OF THE MARTYR PRESIDENT IN THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL Lincoln Memorial Situated on the Mall, opposite Washington Monument. Open from 6:00 week-days and holidays: 12:00 noon to 6:00 Sundays. THE memorialto AbrahamLincoln, like thatto George Wash-ington, did notcome into beinguntil the genera-tion had passedthat knew theman. On May 30,1922, William Howard Taft, onbehalf of the Senate Park Com-mission, formally presented thenation with the Lincoln Memorial,erected through public subscriptionby the peop
Statues of Abraham LincolnLincoln Memorial . © Harris & Ewing THE HEROIC STATUE OF THE MARTYR PRESIDENT IN THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL Lincoln Memorial Situated on the Mall, opposite Washington Monument. Open from 6:00 week-days and holidays: 12:00 noon to 6:00 Sundays. THE memorialto AbrahamLincoln, like thatto George Wash-ington, did notcome into beinguntil the genera-tion had passedthat knew theman. On May 30,1922, William Howard Taft, onbehalf of the Senate Park Com-mission, formally presented thenation with the Lincoln Memorial,erected through public subscriptionby the people of the nation to a manwho was born in a cabin, becamethe President of the United Statesand the savior of the nation. The Lincoln Memorial is regardedby many people as the outstandingattraction in Washington. It is arectangular structure of white mar-ble with a colonnade of thirty-sixDoric columns, one for each stateexisting at the time of Lincolnsdeath. Within the central hall is a colossal figure of the martyr-Presi-dent—the work of Daniel ChesterFrench. On opposite walls, and sepa-rated from the central hall by a rowof four Ionic columns, are two me-morial tablets, one containing Lin-colns Gettysburg address, the otherhis second inaugural address. Abovethe tablets are t
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