Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C
Lincoln Memorial is the
Presidential memorial built for the
honorable and world-famous Abraham
Lincoln-the 16th president of the
United States of America. Designed
by architect Henry Bacon in a Greek
Doric-inspired temple, the US
presidential memorial was dedicated
at Washington, D.C.’s
National Mall
on the 30th of May in 1922. The
overall style of the presidential
memorial was greatly inspired by
Greece’s Temple of Zeus, with the
huge life-size image of Lincoln as
the main focal feature.
The sculpture was often
interpreted as having a pensive and
worn aura, with the former
president’s
gaze directed east
downward to the Reflecting Pool.
Sculptor Daniel Chester French
painstakingly labored to create the
large seated statue of Abraham
Lincoln while painter Jules Guerin
worked on the interior murals. The
memorial also features two of the
famous speeches of the late
president.
Lincoln Memorial, which is open 24
hours a day for public viewing, is
managed by the National Park Service
along with other monuments under the
National Mall and Memorial Parks
group such as the Korean War
Veterans Memorial, Vietnam Veterans
Memorial and the National World War
II Memorial.
It is also National Register of
Historic Place-listed as early as
1966. In 2007, the American
Institute of Architects voted
Lincoln Memorial as the seventh
America’s Favorite Architecture. |
