Lincoln Memorial

Welcome to the Lincoln Memorial, located on the west bank of the Potomac River, on the axis of the Capitol Building and the Washington Museum.

The structure itself was designed by Henry Bacon in 1912 and completed ten years later at a cost of 2.9 million dollars. The outer walls of the Memorial are White Colorado marble 189 feet long and 118 feet 8 inches wide. The thirty-six outer columns are also of marble, representing the thirty-six states that were in the Union at the time of Lincoln’s death. The name of each state is cut into stone above the column.

Inside the Memorial, the walls are Indiana limestone and the floor is pink Tennessee marble. Three commemorative features include the huge seated statue of Lincoln and two inscribed stone tablets. The marble statue occupies the place of honour, centrally located and facing the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building. The statue is 19 feet high and 19 feet wide, made of twenty-eight blocks of Georgia white marble. Because of the immense size, it took two men four years to complete the carving.

On the north wall, inscribed in stone, is Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address; on the south wall, similarly inscribed, is the Gettysburg Address.

There is a mural above each inscription, representing the two greatest accomplishments of Lincoln’s presidency – the emancipation of the slaves and the unification of the North and South after the Civil War.

This Memorial is open daily from eight o’clock in the morning to midnight. Stay as long as you like, and be sure to ask one of the park service employees if you have any questions.

Answer the questions to the text

1. What material was used in the construction of most of the Lincoln

Memorial?

2. Why are there thirty-six columns?

1. What other buildings can be seen from the Memorial?

2. When is the Memorial open?

3. Why are there thirty-six outer columns?

4. What materials were used for the Memorial?

5. What is inscribed in stone?

6. What does a mural above each inscription represent?

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